[Rarebooks] FS: A Treatise on the Violin by the Father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769

[Charles Agvent]

MOZART, Leopold. LEOPOLD MOZARTS HOCHFURSTL. SALZBURGISCHEN 
VICE-CAPELLMEISTERS GRUNDLICHE VIOLINSCHULE... Augsburg: Johann Jacob 
Lotter, 1769. Second Edition. First Issue of the Second Edition, first 
published in 1756. Small quarto (6-1/4" x 7-7/8") bound in contemporary 
calf with contrasting leather spine labels and lovely decorated period 
German endpapers. [xvi], 268, [viii] pages. Illustrated with 3 (of 4) 
full-page plates, text engravings, and a large folding table of music. 
Lacks the portrait frontispiece. OCLC locates only the copy at the 
Houghton Library at Harvard. A treatise on the fundamental principles of 
violin playing by the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. About a dozen 
pages with marginal tears, mostly at the bottom, with some repaired with 
varying degrees of skill. Loss only to a few letters on one preliminary 
page. Binding is solid with the spine tips chipped, corners a little 
worn, and the spine labels rubbed but still readable. Overall a Very 
Good example of a scarce book. (#011318)        $2,000.00

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