[INCAS - MUSIC]. HARCOURT, Raoul and Marguerite. La Musique des Incas, et ses survivances. Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Gueuthner, 1925. 2 volumes in-4, including 1 volume of text in paperback, partly uncut, and 1 volume of plates in ochre half-percaline laced folder. Text volume: 3] ff. (false title, from the same author, title, dedication), one plate under serpente, VII (foreword), 575 pp., 1] f. (errata), with 23 black figures in the text. Atlas volume: 2] ff. (false title, same author, title); 23 pp. (descriptive table of plates); 39 plates. Titles printed in black and red and adorned with a vignette. Spine rubbed, tears to spine ends and part of first cover of text volume. Spine unstained on atlas folder, a few freckles on title and title leaves. First edition of this remarkable work on pre-Columbian music, particularly that of the Incas, by the musicologist couple M. and Mme d'Harcourt. It consists of a text volume, containing a technical description of Inca instruments (bells and noisemakers, drums and xylophones, trumpet, syrinx, vertical flute and flageolet, whistles and ocarinas and stringed instruments), a section devoted to the festivals and dances of ancient Peru and Mexico, a section on musical folklore, and a section devoted to musical and poetic notations, listing 204 melodies, most of them notated on the spot or collected from native South Americans. It is accompanied by an album of 39 phototype plates, many in color, showing instruments, dance scenes, rituals and musical practices. A good copy of this fascinating study of pre-Columbian music and its modern survivals. Complete in 2 volumes.