MUSIC & DANCE
MUSIC & DANCE
Use of Augsburg — Handsomely Printed & RARE 
Catholic Church. Augsburg (diocese). Rituale augustanum ad normam ritualis romani à glor. mem. Benedicto XIV. anno 1752. Augustae Vindelicorum: Josephi Antonii Labhart, 1764. 4to (22 cm, 8.65"). Engr. t.-p., [18], 544, 544a–d, 545–58, [40 (index)] pp.
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Includes some of the music of the mass. 
A very handsome production.
• Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with speckled calf; gilt-stamped leather spine-label. Verso of front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1816. Title-page partially separated from bottom up, and with shadow of old pencilled numeral. A good clean copy. (18542)
Rules for the Choir Catholic Church. Province of Mexico City (Mexico). Concilio Provincial (3rd, 1585). Statuta Ecclesiae Mexicanae necnon Ordo in choro servandus curante Vallisoletanae Ecclesiae capitulo sumptus suppeditante. Mexici: Apud Marianum Zunnigam, et Ontiverium, 1797. Folio (27.5 cm; 11"). [1], 140 pp., [2] ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Uncommon. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three copies in the U.S.
• Medina, Mexico, 8711. Contemporary vellum over paste boards of printer's waste, vellum cockled and that of the front cover lightly rodent-gnawed at board edges. Worming in text, some of which is meander type, costing letters. Not a great copy, but given the scarcity, an acceptable one. (24103)
Choir Boys' Colegio
Colegio de Nuestra Señora de la Asumpcion (Mexico City).
Constitvciones de el Colegio de Nvestra Señora de la Assumpcion, y el glorioso patriarcha Señor San Joseph, de la infantes de el coro de esta santa iglesia metropolitana de Mexico. Dispvestas y ordenandas por el m. ilustre señor venerable dean, y cabildo de dicha iglesia. Mexico: En la Imprenta Real del Superior Govierno, de Da. maria de Rivera, 1734. Small 4to. 18 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Very rare: Not in OCLC or RLIN. We locate only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library.
• Medina, Mexico, 3319. In plain wrappers as issued. A very good copy. (12054)
Another Variety of
“Sample” Book
Paperback! Pentecostal Hymnal (with Music) Date, Henry, ed. Pentecostal hymns no. 2. Chicago: Hope Publishing Co., [1900]. 8vo (9.9 cm, 3.9"). [2], 30,
[16], 31–[222] pp.
This “paperback” issue is VERY UNCOMMON, unlike the “hardback” printing.
• Publisher’s printed paper wrappers, lightly spotted, chipping over spine and with edge nicks; back wrapper with upper outer corner torn away just touching ornamental type border. Some corners dog-eared; one page with inkstain obscuring a few words and notes, pages otherwise clean.
To the
Lodge Let’s Repair![Dunham, John Moseley]. The vocal companion, and Masonic register. In two parts.... Boston: John M. Dunham, 1802. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). 180 (lacking pp. 17–20, 51–58, 71/72, and plate), 103, v pp.
Single-click any image, for an enlargement.uncommon collection of Masonic songs and toasts, here in its first and only edition, in “A.L. 5802.” The two volumes, bound in one, include a history of
Freemasonry
in America along with descriptions
of early American lodges, membership rosters, and accounts of some rituals. Although no music is given, tune names are provided for many of the lyrics; song XXXIX, which begins “Hail Masonry divine; / Glory of ages shine, / Long mayst thou reign,” is set to “God Save the King.”
• Sabin 100650; Shaw & Shoemaker 2166. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-stamped Masonic devices in compartments. Lacking the plate and pp. 17–20, 51–58, and 71/72 of the first part. Title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages sometime exposed to moisture or mildew, thus variously browned, age-toned, and brittle, with some tears; our second double-page photo was taken to show the worst such damage. P. 84 of the second part with two names carefully excised.
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