Versuch einer Anleitung zur heroisch-musikalischen Trompeter- und Pauker-Kunst : zu mehrerer Aufnahme derselben historisch, theoretisch und praktisch beschrieben und mit Exempeln erlautert von Johann Ernst Altenburg

by: Altenburg, Johann Ernst, 1734-1801, author; Bates, Johsua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor. MB; Hendel, Johann Christian, 1742-1823, printer, publisher

Publication date: 1795

Topics: Trumpet, Timpani

Publisher: Halle : gedruckt und verlegt ben Joh. Christ. Hendel

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: German

Pages 133-144 ("Concerto a vii clarini con tymp.", "Marsch", and "Minuetto") printed on leaves 20 x 36 cm

Signatures: [píþ] b1 A-H́þ [chi1] I℗đ K-Q́þ R-U℗ø

Joshua Bates;

Catalogued

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy quarter-bound in brown/red/aquamarine marbled papers and blue library repair tape (replacing spine binding, largely absent, where present) over boards. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates, received September 15, 1859. Front flyleaf includes autograph in black ink script at head-/fore-edge of page. Printed on antique laid papers featuring horizontal chainlines and vertical wire lines. Title page includes embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Rear pastedown includes remnants of affixed label