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L'AULNAYE, Francois-Henri-Stanislaus de (1739-1830). De la Saltation Théatrale ou Recherches sur l'origine, les progrès, et les effets de la Pantomime chez les Anciens. Paris: Barrois, 1790. 8° (193 x 120mm.). Half-title, 9 hand-coloured engraved plates. (Some light spotting.) Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine gilt (scuffed and chipped at extremities and hinges, slight worming to upper cover). FIRST EDITION of prize-winning dissertation delivered to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of Paris in November 1789. Cohen/de Ricci p. 106. -- Baccio BANDINI (d.1585). Discorso Sopra la Mascherata della Geneologia degl' iddei de' Gentili. Florence: Giunta, [1568]. 4° (206 x 150mm.). Title with woodcut Medici coat-of-arms, woodcut initials. (Some spotting, occasional old dampstaining.) Old vellum. Description of a theatrical procession in Florence on 21st February 1566 (1565 by Florentine calendar). -- État Actual de la Musique du Roi et Trois Spectacles de Paris. Paris: for Libraire des Menus Plaisirs, 1774. 12° (134 x 78mm.). Engraved frontispiece after C. N. Cochin, engraved title, 4 engraved plates. (Title lightly stained.) Contemporary French brown morocco gilt, covers with armorial stamp (?Comte Georgin de Mardigny), g.e. Provenance: René Choppin (armorial bookplate). Cohen/de Ricci p. 363. -- With 4 others (Histoire van den Amsterdamschen Schouwburg. Amsterdam: G. Warnars and P. den Herget, 1772. 8°. -- Statuti della venerabile Archiconfraternita del confalore. Rome: Bartholomeo Bonfadino and Tito Diani, 1584. 4°. -- Michael Anton STRUCK. Wernigerödisches Danck-und Jubel-Fest. Wernigerode: Micel Anton Struck, 1740. 4°. -- One page programme printed in raised characters for a concert performed at the "Institut des jeunes aveugles" on 26th March, 1846. Paris: 1846). (7)