Jean-Pierre GUIGNON (1702-1774). Six Sonates à violon seul et basse. Dedicated to Monsieur Bonnier de la Mosson, Treasurer General of the States of Languedoc. By J.P. Guignon Roy des Violons. Œuvre VIe. Engraved by Melle Bertin (Paris, chez Madame Boivin et le Sieur Le Clerc, [1743]); in-fol., [2ff.]-35p. in contemporary marbled paper boards (spine worn). Rare first edition of this second collection of Sonatas for violin and continuo by Guignon (RISM A/I G 5048). Some light dampening. Giovanni Pietro Ghignone, a native of Turin, joined the Chapelle Royale in 1733, Frenchifying his name; naturalized in 1741, he was one of Vivaldi's main introducers in France; a disciple of Somis, his talents earned him the nickname "Roy des violonistes". This opus is dedicated to the financier and patron Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson (1702-1744), with a laudatory dedication engraved at the head of the collection: "Two things have equally guided me in the conduct of the work I present to you, Imagination in composing it; Judgment, in offering it to you; and I make it a marked honor to publish that I have not felt more driven by the desire to make the Beautiful, than by the flattering idea of being flattened by a Connoisseur such as yourself"... Provenance: collection of violinist Henri Vieuxtemps.