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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.-
TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Живой Трупъ. Драма въ...
Moscow, A. Ia. Petrov, [1911].
One of the earliest printings of Tolstoy’s...
£1750
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[FOPPA, Giuseppe.] Francesco PANORMO, translator.
Aci e Galatea, a pastoral Opera, as represented...
London: Printed by C. Clarke … 1795.
First edition, very rare, of the dual-language...
£650
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CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.
Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne...
Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].
First edition, very rare, of this libretto...
£275
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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...
£3500
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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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HALÉVY, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie.
Autograph musical quotation, signed.
Paris, 15 May 1846.
Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) showed...
£750
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CHERUBINI, Luigi.
Autograph note signed ‘L. Cherubini’...
[Paris,] 19 December 1825.
A short note in which the composer and...
£350
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[PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]
‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...
[Scunthorpe, 1914.]
A rare broadside programme for a benefit...
£185
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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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DELLOYE, H.-L. (editor).
Chants et chansons populaires de la France...
Paris, Félix Locquin [– Dondey-Dupré;...
First edition of a finely illustrated,...
£450
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WILSON, David (editor).
A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, &c....
[Edinburgh:] Sold by the Editor at his...
Second(?), expanded edition of this...
£500
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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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[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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[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]
Démophon.
[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]
A contemporary scribal manuscript of...
£5250
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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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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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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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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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BLANKENBURG, Quirinus Gerbrandszoon van.
Elementa musica of niew licht tot het welverstaan...
The Hague, Laurens Berkoske, 1739.
First edition, very scarce.
£1500