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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.-
ARISTIDES, Aelius.
Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.
First edition in Latin, a remarkable...
£2750
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BLANCHET, Joseph.
L’art, ou les principes philosophiques...
Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel...
First edition. The designation ‘IIe edition,...
£750
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BURNEY, Charles.
An Account of the musical Performances...
London, Printed for the Benefit of the...
First edition. The Handel Commemoration...
£1250
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BYRD, William, John BULL and Orlando GIBBONS.
Parthenia or the maydenhead of the first...
[London, Chiswick Press for W. Heffer...
Facsimile reprint of the original edition...
£225
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CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.
La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.
Second edition, published in the same...
£2250
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[CONGREGATION OF THE ORATORY OF ST PHILIP NERI.]
A collection of seven componimenti sacri...
Venice, 1746-1787.
A collection of seven libretti for sacred...
£375
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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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[GLUCK, Christoph Willibald.]
Paride ed Elena. Dramma per musica . ....
Vienna, Johann Thomas von Trattner, 1770.
First edition of Gluck’s Paride ed Elena,...
£5000
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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...
A specially bound volume containing ten...
£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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GROSSI, G. B. Gennaro.
Le Belle Arti.
Naples, dalla tipografia del Giornale...
First edition in book form, reprinted from...
£150
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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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LECLAIR, Jean Marie.
Troisieme Livre de Sonates a violon seul...
Paris, l’auteur, [1734].
First edition. A luxury production, including...
£2250
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MAJER, Andrea.
Discorso sulla origine, progressi, e stato...
Padua, ‘dalla Tipografia e Fonderia...
First edition of Majer’s treatise...
£185
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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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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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MOORE, George.
Manuscript commonplace book of poems, songs,...
1805-1855.
An appealing commonplace book of verses...
£550
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RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe.
Zoroastre, tragedie, mise en musique par...
Paris, Boivin, Leclair, Castagneri and...
First edition; rare. Despite a strong cast...
£5000
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
Annotated copy, once owned by a music...
£2800