316 - BONANNI (Filippo).

BONANNI (Filippo). Gabinetto armonico pieno d'instromenti sonori [...] Rome, Giorgio Placho, 1723. In-4, later ivory-colored vellum, handwritten title on the spine. Second edition, revised and expanded, of this famous treatise on organology, first published in 1722. The richly illustrated engravings include two frontispieces and a substantial series of 151 plates depicting musical instruments, nos. I–CXLVIII (including two plates numbered XII and XIII, and XIII and XIV, respectively (pp. 56–57), two different plates numbered XXIX, two others numbered LXXVIII, as well as two unnumbered plates placed between pp. 94–95 and 138–139.) A comprehensive overview of musical instruments in Europe and around the world, constituting one of the most important iconographic sources for the history of musical instruments and practices in the early 18th century. Skinning. A few plates are discolored. An old handwritten bookplate crossed out on the title page. An old handwritten bookplate erased on the last page.