‎SHUTE NEVIL‎
‎IN THE WEST‎

‎Beskrivelse over Eylandet St. Croix i America i Vest=Indien. (i.e. English: ""Description of the Island of St. Croix in America in the West Indies""). - [EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF ST. CROIX UNDER DANISH RULE]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, L.H. Lillies Enke, 1758. 4to (203 x 160mm). In a very nice contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Lower compartment of spine with some loss of leather. Marbled boards with wear. End-papers renewed but with near contemporary paper. Previous owner's name to title-page. Internally very nice and clean. 72 pp.‎

‎The extremely scarce first edition of the first printed account of the island of St. Croix under Danish rule. It contain descriptions of the geology, topography and natural history and present detailed descriptions of sugar cultivation and production and the conditions of the slaves. Haagensen settled on the island immediately after Danish occupation (1733) as plantation owner and Danish official. In 1725, St. Thomas Governor Frederik Moth encouraged the Danish West Indies Company's directors to consider purchasing Saint Croix (then known as Santa Cruz). On 15 June 1733, France and Denmark-Norway concluded a treaty by which the Danish West India Company bought Saint Croix for 750,000 livres. Louis XV ratified the treaty on 28 June, and received half the payment in French coins, with the remaining half paid in 18 months. On 16 November 1733, Moth was named the first Danish governor of Saint Croix. The 1742 census lists 120 sugar plantations, 122 cotton plantations, and 1906 slaves, compared to 360 whites on the island. By 1754, the number of slaves had grown to 7,566. That year, King Frederick took direct control of Saint Croix from the company. For nearly 200 years, Saint Croix, St. Thomas and St. John were known as the Danish West Indies. By the mid to late 18th century, ""at the peak of the plantation economy, the enslaved population of Saint Croix numbered between 18,000 and 20,000, the white population ranging between 1,500 and 2,000"". (Loftsdóttir, Kristin, and Gísli Pálsson, ""Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean""). In 1916, Denmark sold Saint Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John to the United States, formalizing the transfer in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, in exchange for a sum of US$25 million in gold. Sabin 29406 Reid 98 Bibl. Danica III, 647.‎

‎Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West. Scriptor, Cantor & Notator (Volume I)‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 328 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:107 b/w, 33 tables b/w., 2 maps b/w, Language(s):English, Italian, French. ISBN 9782503606149.‎

‎Summary Scriptor, Cantor & Notator is an innovative multi-author project dealing with the complex interconnections between learning, writing and performing chant in the Middle Ages. A number of different methodological approaches have been employed, with the aim of beginning to understand the phenomenon of chant transmission over a large geographical area, linking and contrasting modern definitions of East and West. Thus, in spite of this wide geographical spread, and the consequent variety of rites, languages and musical styles involved, the common thread of parallels and similarities between various chant repertoires arising from the need to fix oral repertories in a written form, and the challenges involved in so doing, are what bring this wide variety of repertoires and approaches together. This multi-centric multi-disciplinary approach will encourage scholars working in these areas to consider their work as part of a much larger geographical and historical picture, and thus reveal to reader and listener more, and far richer, patterns of connections and developments than might otherwise have been suspected. Scriptor, Cantor & Notator is published in two books. The first, The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West, brings together articles on several different families of early music scripts in the Latin West and provides a vividly diverse picture of some of the best current scholarship on the various types of ancient and medieval musical notation. TABLE OF CONTENTS Methodology Concepts and Taxonomies of Music Scripts (Rankin, Susan) Design, and the Historiography of Early Music Scripts (Varelli, Giovanni) Appunti metodologici sullo studio del canto liturgico (Albiero, Laura) Indeterminacy. New Aspect of Meaning in Gregorian Chant (Mascare as Garza, scar) Guiding Silence. The Function of Melodic Interruptions in Medieval Chant (Lousberg, Leo) Et gloriosus in saecula . Pal ographie des notations franques nord-occidentales (970-1120) (Goudesenne, Jean-Fran ois) Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Reuniting Fragments and Reconsidering the Scribal History of the Beneventan Zone (Nardini, Luisa) Frammenti di un antifonario in notazione nonantolana (Roncroffi, Stefania) Notation in Transition? A Palaeographical Study of the Insular Missal EXcl 3515 (Mannion, Anne) Regional Scripts and Repertories Notazioni neumatiche dei secoli XI-XII nella Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona. Riflessioni e spunti di ricerca (Cunego, Giovanni) La notation musicale dans la Catalogne m di vale. Autour des origines et son volution (Garrigosa i Massana, Joaquim) The Scribe and the Notator as the Bearer of Identity. Bohemian Notation in Late Mediaeval Manuscripts of Central Europe (Veselovska, Eva)‎

‎Matsa I. The Art of the Age of Mature Capitalism in the West./Matsa I. Iskusstv‎

‎Matsa I. The Art of the Age of Mature Capitalism in the West./Matsa I. Iskusstvo epokhi zrelogo kapitalizma na Zapade. Matsa I. Art of the Age of Mature Capitalism in the West. Moscow: Publishing House of the Communist Academy, 1929. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-ad65f3d5f7743bb4.‎

‎Burachek S. O. The Popular Meaning of the Universal Church in the West and East.‎

‎Burachek S. O. The Popular Meaning of the Universal Church in the West and East. Critical Review Confrontation and Condemnation of the Religious Delusions of the Roman West. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Burachek S. O. Narodnoe znachenie Vselenskoy tserkvi na Zapade i Vostoke. Kriticheskiy obzor ochnaya stavka i oblichenie religioznykh zabluzhdeniy Rimskogo Zapada. St. Petersburg Type. Headquarters Department of the Guard Corps 1845. 102 222s. SKUalb67281460f0dde555.‎

‎Seychas na Zapade. Berlin-Rur - London. In Russian /Now in the West. Berlin-R...‎

‎"Short description: In Russian. Nikitin, Nikolai Nikolaevich. Now in the West. Berlin-Ruhr-London. Leningrad; Moscow: Petrograd, 1924. Seychas na Zapade. Berlin-Rur - London. In Russian /Now in the West. Berlin-Ruhr-London. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9119443"‎