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[Two first editions in one volume] 1) Traité de l'Harmonie, réduite à ses principes naturels, divisé en quatre livres. Paris: J.-B. C. Ballard, 1722. Catalogue at end, type-set music examples and woodcut ornaments, some annotations in a contemporary hand, original bookplate ("[Presented to The Royal College of Organists by] Dr. W. Pole F.R.S.") deleted by later owner; 2) Nouveau Système de Musique Théorique. Paris: Ballard, 1726. 2 folding tables, 1 engraved plate; 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached [RISM Écrits, pp.683-685; Gregory & Bartlett, i, 224; Hirsch, i, 484 and 485] Note: Rameau's Traité is the foremost work on music theory of the eighteenth century.