Music

BLANKENBURG, Quirinus van. Elementa Musica of Niew Licht tot het welverstaan van De Musiec en de Bas-Continuo. The Hague: Laurens Berkoske, 1739, FIRST EDITION, 4to, engraved plates, some folding, eighteenth-century vellum, staining to covers, spine torn at head, slight loss of paper to lower outer corner of leaves 2-4, a few leaves detached, edges frayed, some browning and staining [Hirsch, i 73; RISM Écrits, p. 154]; MARPURG, Friedrich Wilhelm. Historisch-kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik...V. Band. Erstes (...Fünftes) Stück, Berlin: G. A. Lange, 1760-1762, 8vo, lacking part 6, disbound, text block split, some leaves detached [RISM Écrits, p. 682; see Hirsch, i 352]; [PLEYEL, Ignace Joseph] Trois Trios Tires du 2.^e Livre de Trios de M.^r Pleyel Arrangés pour le Clavecin ou Pianoforte par M.^me de B[oquestant] [parts], Paris: Imbault, no date, 32, 11 pages, large 4to, bookplates of the Bibliothèque du Château du Boulay-Thierry and Madame La Marquise de Boquestant, contemporary red morocco gilt [not in Benton]; Het Boek der Psalmen, Amsterdam: heirs of Hendrik van der Putte, 1774; Catechismus, ofte onderwysinge in de christelyke leere, ibid., [no date], 2 works in one volume, 4to, gilt lettering to upper cover ("Kerk van Naarden 1833"), nineteenth-century calf, frontispiece title and one other leaf detached, some damp-staining, covers worn; Les pseaumes de David, mis en vers françois, Rotterdam: D. Vis, 1787, 4to, red morocco label with gilt lettering ("Wale Kerk.") to upper cover, nineteenth-century cloth [BUC, p. 843]; Recueil général des opéra représentez par l'Académie royale... Tome huitième, Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1706,  2 leaves, 8vo, contemporary manuscript annotations to title and final page ("Ce livre appartient a Sr ph.pe Boussin fils..."), with a loose manuscript list of contents possibly in Leonhardt's hand, contemporary calf; and a manuscript volume of French romances, airs and chansons, [318] pages, oblong 4to, gilt lettering to upper cover ("Recueil de Romances à Madame la Marquise de Roche Lambert"), contemporary red morocco, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century

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Plates P1 and P2 of Blankenburg's celebrated treatise comprise an engraved fugue in C minor, whose theme the author claimed Handel had plagiarized in his Six Fugues of 1735.