MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY (Louis-Élie)

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MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY (Louis-Élie)
Dancing. Parma, Printed by Bodoni, 1801. In-18, 4 ff.n.ch., 52 pp.: morocco green bronze, triple gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated, inner wheel, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Very nice typographical edition by Bodoni, printed in lower case. Choirs and small steps in the tropics. Interesting article, taken from a work entitled "Notions coloniales", in which the author, after briefly retracing the history of dance, studies the relationship between it and the climate, morals and habits of a people, to arrive at a vivid picture of dance in the tropics and conclude that chica, the voluptuous dance of the New World, presents a great analogy with the dance of the ancient Greeks (see Anthony Louis Elicona, Un colonial sous la Révolution en France et en Amérique: Moreau de Saint-Méry, pp. 144-145. Born in Fort-de-France, Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819) was a lawyer in Santo Domingo and a member of the Constituent Assembly of Martinique, then emigrated to the United States where he settled as a bookseller and printer. It was in this city, in 1796, that he first published this pamphlet dedicated to the Creoles with the help of Talleyrand who, it is said, corrected the proofs. A pleasant copy, in a morocco binding decorated strictly with period decorations (Brooks, Edizioni Bodoniani, 1927, no. 814 - Sabin, no. 50569 - Derra de Moroda, The Dance Library, 1982, no. 1889: "The first authentic edition").
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