Rameau, Jean Philippe

1) Les Festes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, ou Les Dieux d'Egypte, Ballet Heroïque [score], Paris: L'Auteur, La Veuve Boivin, Le Clair, [c.1749], 144 pages 
[BUC, p.871, Hirsch, ii 769, RISM R 143, Hoboken, xvi 231] 

2) Pigmalion, Acte de Ballet [score], Paris: L'Auteur, La Veuve Boivin, Le Clair, [c.1749], 43 pages [BUC, p.872, RISM R 163, Hoboken, xvi 228]



2 volumes in one, oblong 4to (23.6 x 31.6cm), printed titles and engraved music, eighteenth-century mottled calf, creasing to titles, and a few tiny tears to margins, of 1), some very slight damp-staining to margins of a few pages, slight loss of leather to lower corners of covers



 

From the collection of André Meyer (1884-1974).

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Two rare editions. We have traced no auction record for Rameau's one act ballet Pigmalion, first performed on 27 August 1748.