Le Mercure galant, May 1697 - Donneau de Visé, Jean 1638-1710 (Paris Brunet, 1697)
Contains 1 song "Aimable objet d'une flame innocente" (text Mr. Morel, music Mr Arnoul)
engraving between p.162 & 163 is lissing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercure_de_France
The Mercure Galant, founded in 1672 by Jean Donneau de Visé, was the first periodical to combine cultural articles with information. From the time of its foundation until the death of its founder, 488 volumes of about 500 pages were published, containing some 20,000 articles presenting various sections concerning public life with Official Relations or Entertainment and Festivities, private life with Births, Marriages and Obituaries, cultural life with the various Academies and Social Societies, personal works with Novels, Poetry or, in the Music chapter, Notated Airs with ca 575 musical plates.
Leather-bound, with gilt-embossed spine, marbled endpapers and gilt edges
Dedié a Monseigneur Le Dauphin
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Song; Journalism; Music criticism; Literature; Military history; Gardening; Cuckoo; Biography; France; air; bibliotheek; boekprijs; Christine van Zweden; Dacier; Descartes; boekverbranding; Herbelot