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8 volumes. Large folio. Contemporary full carta rustica. Housed in 4 custom-made dark brown leather-backed clamshell boxes with dark blue cloth boards and dark red title labels gilt to spines, with two volumes to a box. Titles in red and black. Music and text typeset throughout. Tomo Primo, 1724 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 9 ("Prefazione"), 10-16 (letters), 17-34 (psalm texts in Italian and Latin parallel translation), 1f. (recto blank, verso fine full-page engraving by Giovanni Antonio Faldoni after Joseph Camerata), CXXX, [i] ("Indice") pp. Tomo Secondo, 1724 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 2-4 ("A leggitori"), 5-22 (psalm texts in Italian and Latin parallel translation), 1f. (recto blank, verso engraving as above), CXLVIII, [i] ("Indice") pp. Tomo Terzo, 1724 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), VI-VIII ("A leggitori"), 5-22 (psalm texts in Italian and Latin parallel translation), CXLI, [i] ("Indice") pp. Tomo Quarto, 1724 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), ii ("A leggitori), iii-viii (letters), 5-27, [i] (blank), 1f. (recto blank, verso engraving "Sebastiano Ricci" and "Io:Antonius Faldoni Sculp."), CXCVII, [i] ("Indice") pp. Tomo Quinto, 1725 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), IV ("A leggitori"), 5-20 (psalm texts in Italian and Latin parallel translation), 1f. (recto blank, verso engraving "Joseph Camerata in." and "A Faldonus Sculp."), CXXXIII, [i] ("Indice"), pp. Tomo Sesto, 1726 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), IV ("A leggitori"), 5-23 (psalm texts in Italian and Latin parallel translation), [i] (blank), 1f. (recto blank, verso engraving "Joseph Camerata in." and "A Faldonus Sculp."), CXLVI, [i] ("Indice"), pp. Tomo Settimo, 1726 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 4 ("A leggitori"), 5-28, 1f. (recto blank, verso engraving "Sebas: Ricci pinx. et del." and Zucchi Sc."), CLXVIII, [i] ("Indice") pp. Tomo Ottavo [1726] 1f. (recto half title, verso blank), 1f. (recto blank, verso engraved frontispiece "Sebastiano Ricci." and Io: Antonius Faldoni Sculp."), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), VIII ("A leggitori"), 5-24, CLXXX, [i] ("Canon triplex sex vocibus infinitus sub Diapente."), [i] ("Indice"), pp. Monogram in contemporary brown ink to titles of second, third, and seventh volumes "[?]AR.," with an additional "C." in the third and seventh volumes, in the same hand; label to upper of Tomo VIII, "No. 74 [?]Son. 11 M. Van den Leuven 4 partitions [?]d'alg de Lulli." Bookplate with coat of arms incorporating snakes and crowned eagles to free front endpaper; small printed overpaste to correct the word "sangue" to p. CXLV. Bindings worn and soiled; spines of Tomo I and II mostly lacking; partial losses to spines of other volumes. Tomo II with tear to lower right quadrant of p. LIII extending into music, with no loss; tear to blank lower margin of p. CXVII; small wormhole to final leaf and rear pastedown. Tomo III with minor loss to lower outer corner of p. 1; tear to blank inner margin of p. XXXIX; small hole to p. CIII with no loss to music. Tomo IV with inkstains to p. CLXXXVIII, affecting music but not legibility; p. 16 partially detached at upper portion. Tomo VI with inkstain to p. LVIII. Tomo VII with soiling to half-title; minor dampstain to lower edge of approximately 20ff.; pinhole to blank outer margin of numerous leaves. Tomo VIII with small tear to blank lower margin of p. CXXIII; pinhole as in Tomo VII; occasional minor browning. A very good, wide-margined copy overall, with strong impression. First Edition. Not in Hirsch or Wolffheim. BUC p. 647. Selfridge-Field B601-651, pp. 393-394. RISM M423. The fine full-page engravings to Tomes I-II and IV-VIII include a representation of David and his harp. Marcello introduces selected psalms with chants in Hebrew drawn from Sephardic. N° de ref. del artículo 40362
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