J.-P. Rameau. Early edition of his ballet "La Guirlande", c.1751

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

La Guirlande Acte de Balet [score], Paris: L'Auteur, rue des bons Enfans, La Veuve Boivin, Le Cler, [c.1751] 

1 leaf, 54 pages, oblong 4to (24 x 34cm), engraved throughout, bookplate of Luytens de Bossut to front pastedown, later green vellum 

A very attractive early copy of Rameau's ballet written for the birth of the Duke of Burgundy. 

LITERATURE

RISM R 145; cf. Hoboken, xvi 229