JEAN JACQUES BARTHELEMY: ENTRETIEN SUR L ETAT DE LA MUSIQUE GRECQUE. [PARIS C.1777-1787] Tire a part (separately printed) of the first edition,for the authors use, obviously for further improvements.In 8vo,contemporary leather over boards,text fine, complete 110p.,full with manuscript corrections and additions by authors own hand by pen in most of the pages,few extra manuscript sheets added with larger corrections ,overall in fine condition. A UNIQUE PIECE. The published work: a fine account on Greek music, that has been published by Barthelemy in Paris in 1777, it played a crucial role in the understanding of Greek culture during Enlightenment and the rise of Philhellenism. Barthélemy present the complex systems of Pythagoras and Aristoxenis and their impact on human harmony,further deal with the musical instruments and underline the close relation of music with dance and literature.At that time,they had still no idea how Greek music sounds,the book was a very first tentative to reconstruct a credible narrative. The concrete copy: The title page of this particular copy is the only one that has not any place of edition, editor or date.It has the full text exactly as published in 1777 and the pages of the book are full with manuscript corrections and additions by contemporary hand, all around 50 pages (of 100 in total). It contains also three separate sheets (one detached) in concrete places with further larger additions (shorter additions were written on the text pages). No second edition had ever appear,but the full version,as corrected in this particularly copy had been added in the edition of Barthelemy for the travels of Anacharsis in 1788.Obviously a separately printed copy (tire a part) for the author, after 1777, who had rework on that, extensively,the outcome has been published in 1788. An amazing piece by Barthelemys own hand, by one of the most important French Philhellene, a landmark work for the raise of Philhellenism during the Enlightenment.