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Auction archive: Lot number 420

Descartes (Rene).

Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$657 - US$1,052
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$1,315
Auction archive: Lot number 420

Descartes (Rene).

Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$657 - US$1,052
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$1,315
Beschreibung:

Excellent Compendium of Musick: With Necessary and Judicious Animadversions thereupon. By a Person of Honour, 1st edition, printed by Thomas Harper for Humphrey Moseley, 1653, titles with printer's woodcut device, three engraved plates, including a lute, woodcut illustrations, errata leaf at end, some spotting and light soiling, modern half calf, spine slightly faded, small 4to Wing D1132. Originally written in 1618, but not published until shortly after his death in 1650, The 'Person of Honour' translator, identified in a contemporary manuscript hand to the title as 'L. Brouncker', was William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620-1684), a mathematician and first President of the Royal Society in 1662. Descartes' early attempt at reconciling the relationship between the physical and psycological perceptions in music, using a scientific and mathematical method. (1)

Auction archive: Lot number 420
Auction:
Datum:
14 Sep 2016
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Excellent Compendium of Musick: With Necessary and Judicious Animadversions thereupon. By a Person of Honour, 1st edition, printed by Thomas Harper for Humphrey Moseley, 1653, titles with printer's woodcut device, three engraved plates, including a lute, woodcut illustrations, errata leaf at end, some spotting and light soiling, modern half calf, spine slightly faded, small 4to Wing D1132. Originally written in 1618, but not published until shortly after his death in 1650, The 'Person of Honour' translator, identified in a contemporary manuscript hand to the title as 'L. Brouncker', was William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620-1684), a mathematician and first President of the Royal Society in 1662. Descartes' early attempt at reconciling the relationship between the physical and psycological perceptions in music, using a scientific and mathematical method. (1)

Auction archive: Lot number 420
Auction:
Datum:
14 Sep 2016
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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