Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (1773-1850) Die Musik der Araber nach Originalquellen  Dargestellt...with a foreward by Freiherrn von Hammer-Purgstall.  Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von Breitkoppf und Haertel, 1842.  12x9 inches; xix, 96pp, plus 24 full page engravings (on both sides of a sheet, making 12 leaves in all, plus errata sheet. 

With "six illustrations in the text and notes pages xxiv-inserts, which Tonformeln the ancient authors, it now contains some viable folk tunes and songs..."

Original printed wrappers, bound in 1940's library buckram.  Nice, crisp copy, and ex-library:  library named stamped at page edges top and bottom, bookplate on the front pastedown and also on the verso of the printed wrapper, perforated library stamps on the title page, page 15, and also on the rear page.  That said, this is a nice copy.   $200

This is a pioneering work in musicology, an early attempt in occidental understanding.  The work includes an historical overview, and then chapters on scale, different modes, rate & rhythm, and then on instruments and harmony, plus an assessment of the Persian_Arabic musical system, not to mention the  a look at the contemporary music of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins.