Braun, Jean Daniel. (flor.1700 - 1740) [Cartier, Jean-Baptiste. (1765-1841)]. Sonates pour flûte traversière avec la basse. Oeuvre Premier. CARTIER'S COPY. Paris: Bovin. ca. 1728. First edition. Score. Engraved folio. 33, [1] pp. Lacking titlepage, first leaf partially rebacked and with repaired tears, 2 other leaves repaired without loss, dampstain on early leaves. Green marbled boards with quarter cloth and leather title at spine. FIRST LEAF SIGNED BY J.B. CARTIER, the famous violinist: "J.B. Cartier, premier violon ...de l'Opera et de la Chapelle du Roy."

First edition, RISM B4728 or 4729. Only a total of 3 copies of the 2 issues recorded, all in France. Sold with a short 1976 letter from Francois Lesure regarding this volume.

According to the Privilége (final leaf), Braun was Musicien Ordinaire to the Duc d'Epernon at the date of this work. In all, he was to publish 9 volumes of sonatas for flutes, musettes, and bassoons. The present copy of Op. I is almost certainly that mentioned by Eitner, II p. 177, as being in the possession of Leo Liepmanssohn.

"From 1791 to 1821 [Cartier] was assistant leader of the Paris Opéra orchestra. In addition, he was a member of the court orchestra from 1804 to 1830, serving under both Napoleon and the Bourbon regime....[As author of "L'art du violon"] Cartier secured for himself an important place in the history of the violin.” (Boris Schwarz, Grove Online)