Live auction - Lot 1194
Hymnes, psaumes et cantiques spirituels, à lusage de la Chapelle royale de Suède à Paris.
Subject: [Liturgical music]
€ 350 / 500
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Lot description
Strasbourg, C. Schmidt, 1758
[4]-394-[16]-xxxiii-[1] pp. [bound with] Recueil de musique pour le chant des cantiques spirituels. Ibid., 1758, 68 pp., printed music. 2 works in 1 vol., 12mo (paper age-toned, some spotting).
Cont. gilt red morocco (sl. rubbed), covers with triple gilt ruled border and interior corner pieces, richly gilt flat spine, gilt sides, a.e.g., gilt decorative endpapers (Brokatpapier), silk marker. Very good copy.
Religious songbooks for French Lutherans, based on German hymns. The Swedish Lutheran Church was for some time the only Protestant church in Paris. Ref. Not in BnF, BL. Prov. Collectors name and stamp.