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1805008301London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme.and John Murray 1805. Four volumes handsomely rebound by Riviere & Son in later 19th century half mottled calf over marbled boards the backs with intricate gilt tooled designs and red and black morocco labels marbled end papers gilt tops. Near Fine period owner name title page each volume pages evenly toned. small rubs at corners joints showing hints of wear. . First Edition in English. Half Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme.and John Murray Hardcover books
18952289757H.S. Nichols 1895. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Limited edition one of 500 copies. Hinges weakening. This copy belonged to the historian Peter Gay - his name appears in blue ink on the verso of each front endpaper. 1895 Hard Cover. xxiv 384; xvi 352 pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispieces of Marmontel and Voltaire. A memoir by the French historian and writer who was also member of the Encyclopedistes movement notable for developing the Encyclopedie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Marmontel contributed a series of articles thereto served as a patron to Madame de Pompadour and was named historiographer of France 1771 secretary to the Academy 1783 and professor of history in the Lycee 1786. First published in 1804 in four volumes his memoirs remain of great importance to literary historians. They include a picturesque review of his life a literary history of two important reigns a great gallery of portraits extending from the venerable Jean Baptiste Massillon to Honore Mirabeau. The book was nominally written for the instruction of his children. It contains an exquisite picture of his own childhood in the Limousin; its value for the literary historian is great. Both John Ruskin and John Stuart Mill list Marmontel among their influences. H.S. Nichols hardcover books
182627752London: Hunt & Clark. Very Good. 1826. Hardcover. Vol. 2; Ex-lib front hinge cracked very worn and fragile. Vol. 2 only. . Hunt & Clark hardcover books
1807128862Philadelphia: Printed by Abel Dickinson 1807. 12mo two volumes contemporary full tree calf spine panels stamped in gold red title labels affixed to spine panels. First U.S. edition. Marmontel's memoir first published in French in 1804 was first published in English in 1805 in the UK. ". his interesting and for the greater part agreeable MEMOIRES D'UN PERE were the best thing he wrote containing some good sketches of the encyclopedistes." - Harvery and Heseltine eds The Oxford Companion to French Literature p. 456. Shaw and Shoemaker 12989. Binding edges rubbed wear at spine ends and corners shallow chips from lower spine ends of both volumes and at upper spine end of volume one front hinges of both volumes cracked but holding scattered foxing a good presentable copy. #128862 Printed by Abel Dickinson unknown books
1810WRCAM47561Paris 1810. Two volumes. xxiv202; 4244pp. plus two folding maps. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt leather labels. Extremities rubbed corners lightly worn. Ink stamp on half title and each titlepage light toning and scattered foxing. Very good. Marmontel's novelistic treatment of the fall of the Inca empire was a huge success in an age that saw several empires tumble. This popular work was first issued in Paris in 1777 and went through many editions. SABIN 44652. hardcover books
1808144276Edinburgh: Mundell Doig and Stevenson 1808. hardcover. fine. 4 volumes. Handsomely bound in contemporary straight grained green morocco with gilt designs on covers & spines a.e.g. Housed in a red cloth folding box. Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell Doig and Stevenson 1808. A fine set.<br/><br/> Each volume has a detailed fore-edge painting of various London city scenes.<br/><br/> Mundell, Doig and Stevenson unknown books
1824304996Paris Chez Verdiere 1824. 1824. 8vo. Frontispieces and plates by Choquel Bovinet and Dupreel. Biographical essay by M. Saint-Surin. 3/4 contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards; marbled edges scattered foxing binder's ticket of T. Dean Canterbury. 4 volumes. Very good. Two bookplates on the front pastedown of each volume. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Chez Verdiere, 1824. hardcover books
183318021Paris: Chez Maurice Schlesinger 1833. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 1er Concerto pour le Piano avec accompagnement d'orchestre dedié à Monsieur F. Kalkbrenner par Fréd. Chopin. Op. 11. Disbound upright folio. 44 pp. PN M. S. 1409. From the collection of Alfred Cortot with his green stamp to the lower right of the title. Occasional fingerings and other annotations in pencil. Notes on the verso of the last page in pencil in French indicate that this copy belonged to pianist Antoine François Marmontel and suggest that the fingerings may be in his hand. Translated from the French: "This copy belonged to Marmontel judging by the dedications of the pieces bound in the same volume. Perhaps the notes in pencil are from Marmontel." Toning and foxing; wear to the spine; overall very good. 10 x 13.25 inches 25.5 x 34 cm. Grabowski & Rink 11-1-Sm. A historic copy having been owned by two of the most important pianists in history. <br style="">Pianist teacher and musicologist Antoine François Marmontel became Professor of Keyboard at the Paris Conservatory in 1848 succeeding Pierre Zimmermann and beating out his former teacher Charles-Valentin Alkan. He achieved renown as a pedagogue; among his many notable students were Georges Bizet Vincent D'Indy and Claude Debussy. Marmontel was the author of a large number of pedagogical works as well as musicological works which are among the best sources for the history of the piano and pianists.<br style="">One of the 20th century's most influential — yet inimitable — classical figures Alfred Cortot was born in 1877 in Switzerland to a French father and a Swiss mother and he based his long career as a pianist conductor and teacher in Paris. Cortot was one of his era's most renowned interpreters of Chopin his best recordings setting an enduring standard for poetry in motion. In 1925 the pianist made the first electrical recording of classical music for the Victor label in New Jersey featuring music by Chopin and Schumann. Among his hundreds of subsequent recordings was the first complete version of Chopin's Preludes Op. 28. In holding up Cortot as a paragon of Chopin playing even decades after his death The New York Times described his method as combining "lucidity with spontaneity. It is almost modern in its lack of sentimentality and attention to structure; yet it is unmistakably Romantic in its insistence on freedom and variety. Each line is suffused with subtle detail with interior contours and dynamic shadings. But these are not indulgent ornaments; they reveal rather than cloud the music's intentions." <br style=""><br style="">The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 was composed in 1830 when Chopin was twenty years old and was first performed on 11 October of that year at the Teatr Narodowy the National Theatre in Warsaw Poland with the composer as soloist during one of his "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland. The first of Chopin's two piano concertos to be published it was therefore given the designation of Piano Concerto "No. 1" at the time of publication even though it was actually written immediately after the premiere of what was later published as Piano Concerto No. 2. Chez Maurice Schlesinger unknown books
