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VOLUME 4 ONLY of `Thesaurus of Oriental Hebrew Melodies` - Songs of the Oriental Sephardim, compiled by the prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world - Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882-1938). Contains a scholarly introduction in Hebrew and detailed table of contents of all the melodies. Musical notes with the original Hebrew texts in phonetic Latin alphabet. 340x275mm. XVI+280mm. Green cloth Hardcover rebound with original cover boards. Cover stained and wavy/curved. Cover edges worn and slightly bumped. Cover corners and spine upper edge slightly bumped/wrinkled. Part of the original spine pasted on rebound spine. Spine slightly dirty. Small sticker on rear whitepage bottom corner. Page edges water-stained/age-stained. Pages wavy and yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of the fourth volume from the monumental ten-volume "Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies" is otherwise in good condition.