Description of Father Bonanni's harmonic instruments of all kinds

Bonanni

Description of Father Bonanni's harmonic instruments of all kinds

At the expense of Venanzio Monaldini, bookseller at the Corso

Rome

1776

in 4th

Half leather with gold title and friezes on the ribbed spine

Italian

Used

XVI + XXIII + 214

Spine partially detached, missing menu items, two plates. detached, several plates. tied in reversed order, pl. XXXIII missing

Title in French on the title page: Description of the harmonious instruments en tout genre par le pere Bonanni. Numbering of the table. XIV appears together with plate. XIII, plate. XXIX is divided into two numbered 1 and 2, on p. 115 a plate. unnumbered entitled 'Varieties of cether'. Famous text by the Jesuit F. Bonanni or Buonanni (1638-1725), fundamental for the history of music, sought after for the rich iconographic apparatus where musicians and instruments of every genre and country are shown, from antiquity to the modern age