Root, Riley.

MUSICAL PHILOSOPHY; Comprising the Transposition of the Musical Keys, in All Its Varied Forms, together with Many Abstruse Questions Relating to Transposition, and the Nature and Changes of Musical Intonation.

Galesburg, (IL): Wm. J. Mourer, Book and Job Printer, 1866. First edition. 12mo. 20 pp. Title page and text printed within ornamental borders. Root (1795-1870), a native of New York and a farmer, settled in Galesburg in 1836, traveled to the California gold fields in 1848 (his memoir, “Journal of the Travels,” is an overland rarity), patented a number of inventions, and took up music, producing this treatise and “constructing a keyboard to illustrate the transposition of scale”(Find-a-Grave online). Original printed yellow wrappers. Very good. Item #65400

Price: $600.00