Lot 40: Feuillet, Raoul-Auger. , Recüeil de contredanses mises en chorégraphie, Paris: chez l'autheur, 1706

first edition, 8vo ( c. 14.2 x 9.2cms), [32], 192 pages, engraved throughout, music and choreographical notation throughout, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, repaired and restored at head of spine, staining to first three leaves

RISM AN2310 (one copy only); Hirsch, i 172; Moroda 931; Magriel (1708 edition),

Henry Prunières; Geneviève Thibaut, comtesse de Chambure, with their bookplates.

Feuillet published the first important method of writing down dance steps in his Chorégraphie (1700): a track notation that displays the movement of dancers across the floor. The Feuillet system is explained in the first 32 pages of this volume, followed by the dance -tunes and steps to thirty-two dances.