BEDOS DE CELLES, François. L'Art du Facteur d'Orgues, Paris: L. F. Delatour, 1766-78, 4 parts in 3 volumes, 2°, FIRST EDITION, section-titles for parts I, II and IV, 137 engraved plates by de la Gardette, some folding (plates 78 and 79 and much of part III with worming to inner margin, affecting some text, occasional light spotting and browning), modern calf-backed boards, spines gilt in compartments. [cf. Brunet II, 619] (3)

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BEDOS DE CELLES, François. L'Art du Facteur d'Orgues, Paris: L. F. Delatour, 1766-78, 4 parts in 3 volumes, 2°, FIRST EDITION, section-titles for parts I, II and IV, 137 engraved plates by de la Gardette, some folding (plates 78 and 79 and much of part III with worming to inner margin, affecting some text, occasional light spotting and browning), modern calf-backed boards, spines gilt in compartments. [cf. Brunet II, 619] (3)

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One of the most exhaustive works on organ building in the pre-Romantic age. It was commissioned by the Académie Royale des Sciences as part of its survey of all the manufacturing skills and crafts of France, and took 12 years to write. The author was a Benedictine monk, and one of the foremost organ-builders of his age. He built an organ for the church of St. Croix in Bordeaux in 1748 (now in the cathedral of St. André), and it is this organ and the one in the Jesuit church in the rue St. Antoine in Paris, that he uses as models throughout the book.

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