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• Le Gratie d'Amore (in Italian; facsimile images from 1602 and 1604 editions), by Cesare Negri (page images with commentary at pbm.com)
• A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing (first edition), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver (page images at pbm.com)
• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Anatomical and mechanical lectures upon dancing. Wherein rules and institutions for that art are laid down and demonstrated. (Printed for J. Brotherton [etc.], 1721), by John Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orchesographie (F. Vieweg, 1888), by Thoinot Arbeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato del ballo nobile (Nella stamperia di Felice Mosca, 1728), by Giovanni Battista Dufort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tant͡sovalʹnyĭ slovarʹ : soderzhashchīĭ v sebi͡e istorīi͡u, pravila i osnovanīi͡a tant͡sovalʹnago iskusstva : s kriticheskimi razmyshlenīi͡ami i li͡ubopytnymi anekdotami otnosi͡ashchimisi͡a k drevnim i novym tant͡sam : perevod s frant͡suzskago (V Universitetskoĭ tipografīi, u V. Okorokova, 1790), by Charles Compan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orchésographie : traité en forme de dialogue par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et pratiquer l'honnête exercice des danses (D. Guéniot, 1988), by Thoinot Arbeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orchésographie (Forni, 1969), by Thoinot Arbeau and Laure Fonta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance. (Forni, 1970), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der von dem Mercurius neu-gebaute Schau-Platz der Dantzenden : darinnen einfältig gewiesen und vorgestellt werden die Eigenschafften der edlen Danta-Kunst ... (Landesbibliothek, 1976), by Mercury (Roman deity), S. J. F., and J. F. S. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le maître a danser. Qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la régularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas ... (Rollin fils, 1748), by Pierre Rameau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le maître à danser : qui enseigne la maniere de faire tous les differens pas de danse dans toute la régularité de l'art, & de conduire les bras à chaque pas ... (Rollin fils, 1983), by Pierre Rameau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mechanical essay on the effects of singing, musick, and dancing, on human bodies (Printed for John Cooke, Bookseller, 1729), by Richard Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le gratie d'amore (A. Forni, 1983), by Cesare Negri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trattato dell'arte del ballo; testo inedito del secolo XV. (G. Romagnoli, 1873), by Ebreo Guglielmo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christoph Gottlieb Hänsels ... Allerneueste anweisung zur aeusserlichen moral (Auf Kosten des Autoris, 1755), by Christoph Gottlieb Hänsel and Bruno Nettl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mastro da Ballo (in Italian), by Ercole Santucci Perugino (Gutenberg ebook)
• Discursos sobre el arte del dançado: y sus exelencias y primer origen, reprobando las acciones deshonestas (in Spanish), by Juan de Esquivel Navarro (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini (Gutenberg ebook)
• Orchestra or A poeme of dauncing Iudicially proouing the true obseruation of time and measure, in the authenticall and laudable vse of dauncing. (At London : Printed by I. Robarts for N. Ling, 1596), by John Davies (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Conclusions vpon dances, both of this age, and of the olde. Newly composed and set forth, by an out-landish doctor (London : Printed [by N. Okes and W. White] for Iohn Orphinstrange, and are to be solde at his shop neere Holborne Bridge, 1607), by John Lowin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• English dancing master. Part 2. (London : printed for Henry Playford at his Shop in the Temple-Change over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1698), by John Playford and Henry Playford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A testimony against gaming, musick, dancing, singing, swearing and peoples calling upon God to damn them. As also against drinking to excess, whoring, lying, and cheating. Commended to the consciences of all people in the sight of God, but more especially to those, who keep publick houses. ([London] : Printed by T. Sowle, at the Crooked Billet in Holloway-Lane, Shoreditch; and are to be sold near the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Crace-Church-street, 1696), by John Kelsall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)
• Kemps nine daies wonder : performed in a daunce from London to Norwich (AMS Press, 1968), by William Kemp and Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• English dancing master (London : Printed for John Playford at his shop ..., 1653), by John Playford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Friendship, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Godolphin, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Northumberland, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Pastorall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Rigadoon Royal, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Ann, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Portuguez, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall Galliarde, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Princess, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• The Friendship, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Godolphin, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Northumberland, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Pastorall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Rigadoon Royal, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Ann, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Portuguez, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall Galliarde, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Princess, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• Antonius de Arena Provençalis de bragardissima villa de Soleriis, ad suos compagnones, qui sunt de persona friantes, bassas dansas et branlos practicantes, nouvellos perquam plurimos mandat. (s.n.], 1758), by Antoine Arena (page images at HathiTrust)

• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (second edition, 1715), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Dancing-Master: or, The Art of Dancing Explained, by Pierre Rameau, trans. by John Essex
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• The Gentleman and Lady's Companion (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (first edition), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver
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  • Gutenberg illustrated HTML

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