Music
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We stock a range of antiquarian music, books on music, manuscripts and autographs, with an emphasis on early printed editions and manuscript scores of important composers.
Recent catalogues have included one of a very few surviving lifetime manuscripts of Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas; a remarkable collection of vocal and instrumental music from the library of the duchesse de Berry; and inscribed first editions of works by Berg, Janacek, Poulenc, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schumann, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams.-
FREZZA DALLE GROTTE, Gioseppe.
Il Cantore ecclesiastico breve, facile,...
Padua, Stamperia del Seminario (Giovanni...
First edition of an uncommon plainchant...
£1250
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[GEORGE V.]
The Form and Order of the Service that...
London, Novello & Company, 1911.
A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...
£450
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[GOETHE.]
REICHARDT, Johann Friedrich. Goethe’s...
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1809–11].
Very rare first complete edition of...
£6500
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GOUNOD, Charles François.
A volume of ten songs bound together, all...
London, 1870–3.
Ten of Gounod’s London-published songs,...
£2000
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GRASSINEAU, James.
A Musical Dictionary; being a Collection...
… London: Printed for J. Wilcox … 1740.
First edition, based largely on the Dictionnaire...
£650
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GREENE, Maurice.
Forty select Anthems in Score composed...
London. J. Walsh, 1743.
First edition. Greene was organist...
£850
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HALÉVY, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie.
Autograph musical quotation, signed.
Paris, 15 May 1846.
Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) showed...
£750
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[HOARE, Prince.]
Songs, Duets, and Chorus, in the Prize;...
[London,] 1793.
First edition, scarce, of the libretto...
£350
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HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.
Die Aegyptische Helena. Oper in zwei Aufzügen.
[Leipzig, Mainzer Presse for Insel-Verlag,...
First edition of Hofmannsthal’s text...
£750
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HUBER, Victor Aimé; James Robertson CRAUFURD, translator.
Stories of Spanish life, from the German...
London, Henry Colburn, 1837.
First edition in English; rare....
£525
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MAJER, Andrea.
Discorso sulla origine, progressi, e stato...
Padua, ‘dalla Tipografia e Fonderia...
First edition of Majer’s treatise on...
£450
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MALCOLM, Alexander.
A Treatise of Musick, speculative, practical...
London, J. Osborn and T. Longman, F. Fayram,...
First London edition of the first history...
£1100
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MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix.
Symphonie No. 3, componirt und Ihrer Majestät...
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1843].
First edition of Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’...
£1500
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[MENESTRIER, Claude François.]
Des representations en musique anciennes...
Paris, René Guignard, 1681.
First edition. A Jesuit professor...
£600
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[MILAN, province of.]
Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...
Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.
Scarce edition of this set of rites...
£200
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MILHAUD, Darius.
Le boeuf sur le toit, ou The nothing doing...
Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1920.
First edition of Milhaud’s Le boeuf...
£2400
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MILHAUD, Darius, and Stéphane MALLARMÉ.
Deux petits airs …
[Paris, Éditions de la nouvelle revue...
First edition of Milhaud’s polytonal...
£750
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MOORE, George.
Manuscript commonplace book of poems, songs,...
1805–1855.
An appealing commonplace book of verses...
£550
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MOZART, et al.
A volume of twelve piano duets adapted...
London, mostly Birchall & Co., 1810s–1820s.
A good collection of late Georgian piano...
£350
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NAPIER, William, publisher and music-seller.
Three part-books of trios (complete) and...
Mostly London, 1769–1775.
An impressive collection of string trios...
£1250