Danses Angloises — Un Eclaircissement Precis de Figures pour les Commencans, d'un Boheme. On y a ajoute une Appendice de vingt & un Tableaux en taille-douce, les Figures y appartenantes, & une Musique nouvellement composee de douze Contredanses de l'invention de l'Auteur (anonymous [Boheme], Vienne 1777)

Dance manual/reference by Anonymous Bohemian author ('un Boheme') / Vienne: chez Joseph Antoine noble de Trattnern, Marchand en gros et Libraire privilegie, 1777. BNE Madrid catalog copy. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1777-Angloises_(BNE).txt (36KB OCR; French text with BNE Madrid provenance stamps). STRUCTURE: A systematic primer on the English country-dance (Danse Angloise / Contredanse) for beginners, organized in three parts: (I) DES PAS — Pas Anglois proprement dit, Pas en avant, Pas de cote (with pedagogical 'Un, deux, trois' counting for the Anglo-style Contredanse step, distinct from the pas of theatrical Baroque dance); (II) DES FIGURES ET DE LEUR DENOMINATION — the NINE PRINCIPAL FIGURES of the Danse Angloise, each with formation diagrams on plates 1-5: [1] La Croix / Le Moulinet (for 1, 1.5, 2, 3 couples); [2] Le Rond (same progression); [3] La Promenade / Le Passe; [4] Le Tourne / Le Tombe (simple, double, montant, descendant); [5] Le Chasse (premier chasse, second chasse); [6] Le Dos a dos; [7] La Muraille (6 numbered sub-variants with three couples); [8] La Chaine — with sub-variants Chaine entiere, Trois quarts de Chaine, Demi-Chaine, Chaine de cote, Chaine au Coin, Chaine en Moulinet; [9] Le Huit — with sub-variants Grand-Huit (croise), Demi-Grand-Huit, Huit Ordinaire, Demi-Huit Ordinaire, Huit de cote; (III) APPENDICE — 12 numbered contredanses with newly-composed music ('Musique nouvellement composee de douze Contredanses de l'invention de l'Auteur'), engraved on 21 taille-douce tableaux plates 1-21. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: The only French-language systematic Contredanse primer from the Habsburg-Viennese Imperial press in the 1770s, attested by a Madrid-BNE-cataloged holding (confirming pan-European salon circulation). Documents the late-1770s standardization of the English country-dance figure canon just before the quadrille revolution: the 9 principal figures + the sub-variant system (especially the 6 Chaine sub-variants and 5 Huit sub-variants) is the most detailed figure-taxonomy surviving from pre-1780 contredanse pedagogy. Complements LOC-1768-PETERSEN (the German-language Petersen contredanse manual) and LOC-1769-GUILLAUME (the Parisian Guillaume almanach) to establish the trans-European circulation of the common contredanse canon in the generation before Wilson's early-19c English country-dance treatises (LOC-1808-WILSON..LOC-1824-WILSON-DANCIAD). The 12 numbered contredanses on tableaux plates are anonymous, plate-only, and not individually OCR-extractable; they are NOT individually minted as canonicals and are deferred for future targeted-OCR work. ROSETTA LINKS: dictionary-level matches to H-BAR-CD-F0038 La Chaine (Feuillet 1706), H-BAR-CD-F0037 La Chasse (Feuillet 1706), H-BAR-CD-F0046 Instruction generale pour toutes les Contredanses (Lorin c.1685-1688), H-BAR-CD-F0109 Contre-danse Francaise & Allemande (Brives 1779), and H-GAB-COT-F0008 Cotillon — Le Rond. Has_Step_Detail = Partial — the Pas Anglois / Pas en avant / Pas de cote chapter is step-level prose pedagogy (counting, foot-placement, cadence-alignment); the 9 principal figures are described at formation-narrative granularity with explicit plate references but the 12 numbered contredanses on the tableaux plates are plate-only and not step-level. (1777). Imported from local collection.