BONANNI (Filippo).

BONANNI (Filippo). Gabinetto armonico pieno d'instromenti sonori [...] Rome, Giorgio Placho, 1723. In-4, later ivory-colored vellum, handwritten title on the spine. Second edition, revised and expanded, of this famous treatise on organology, first published in 1722. The richly illustrated engravings include two frontispieces and a substantial series of 151 plates depicting musical instruments, nos. I–CXLVIII (including two plates numbered XII and XIII, and XIII and XIV, respectively (pp. 56�

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Books & manuscripts

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Paris