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.-
[PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]
‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...
[Scunthorpe, 1914.]
A rare broadside programme for a benefit...
£185
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PLAYFORD, John.
Psalms & Hymns in solemn Musick of foure...
London, Printed by W. Godbid for J. Playford,...
First edition of the first harmonised...
£1850
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[PLAYING CARDS.]
Cartes Magiques Musicales. 1001 Danses...
Paris, Bass, c. 1830.
The complete Piquet deck of these rare...
£3000
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[POETRY.]
‘Récueil de differentes pieces de vers,...
[Belgium, 1777 and later].
An interesting commonplace of verses,...
£750
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[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]
La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...
Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.
First edition, very rare, of the libretto...
£1250
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[PRELLEUR, Peter.]
The Compleat Tutor for the Harpsichord...
London, Peter Thompson, musical instrument...
First edition thus?, an abridgment of part...
£1250
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RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe.
Zoroastre, tragedie, mise en musique par...
Paris, Boivin, Leclair, Castagneri and...
First edition; rare. Despite a strong...
£5000
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RECUEIL DE QUADRILLES
pour le Piano.
[France, 1840s?]
A delightful album, evidently produced...
£850
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
The third edition (first 1557) of a...
£2800
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RINUCCINI, Ottavio.
La Dafne, nuovamente stampata in occasione...
Florence, Borgognissanti, 1810.
Scarce edition of Rinuccini’s Dafne,...
£650
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[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.]
Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...
[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].
Very rare proposal for a new opera house...
£475
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SACCHI, Giovenale.
Del numero e delle misure delle corde musiche...
Milan, [Giuseppe Mazzucchelli (colophon),]...
First edition of Sacchi’s first work:...
£850
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[SCHOLZE, Johann Sigismund.]
Sperontes singende Muse an der Pleisse...
Leipzig, auf kosten der lüstigen Gesellschaft...
Second edition of the first part, first...
£4500
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SCHUBERT, Franz, composer.
A fine contemporary volume of ten works...
Vienna, 1821-1833.
A rare collection of Schubert Lieder...
£7500
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SPRÜNGLI, Johann Jacob, editor.
Männergesänge von Freunden der Tonkunst...
Zürich, gedruckt bei J. J. Ulrich, im...
First edition, the partbook issue. ...
£950
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TANS’UR, William.
The Royal Psalmodist compleat: or, the...
[St Neots?,] Printed by the Author, 1750.
Unrecorded edition of Tans’ur’s Royal...
£850
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Zhivoi trup. Drama v 6 deistviiakh i 12...
Moscow, A. Ia. Petrov, [1911].
One of the earliest printings of Tolstoy’s...
£2750
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VERHEYEN, Pierre Emmanuel.
Requiem mass in C minor.
[Flanders, c. 1810.]
A very grand unpublished Requiem mass...
£4750
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[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]
Démophon.
[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]
A contemporary scribal manuscript of...
£5250
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WAPPEROM, Jacobus Joannes.
Gezangen door J.J. Wapperom.
The Hague, 1805.
Very rare collection of songs by the...
£675