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[DANCE] DUFORT Giambattista (1680-1728). Trattato del ballo nobile indirizzato all'eccellenze delle signore e de' signori cavalieri napoletani. Naples: Mosca, 1728.
First and only edition of this scarce monograph containing general rules and principles to regulate ballroom dancing, both in terms of the position of the couple and the direction of the march. Sowell, 49: 'This book is one of the first in Italian to employ the tenochoregraphic dance notation of Beauchamp an Feuillet'.8vo, (170x114 mm) . 25 engravings in the text and 2 headpieces (browning). contemporary vellum binding, title gilt to spine, red edges. (1)
ESTIMATE € 400 - 600
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ORIGENES (185-254). Que hoc in libro continentur. Venice: Bernardino Benali, 1512.
ORIGENES (185-254). Que hoc in libro continentur. Venice: Bernardino Benali, 1512.
ESTIMATE € 600 - 800