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.-
[ADOLPHUS, Prince, later Duke of Cambridge.]
Manuscript collection of fifty-four songs...
[Hanover?, 1796.]
The seventh son of George III and Queen...
£2850
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ANTIPHONAL,
with neumes, containing music for the blessing...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-15th century.
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...
£4250
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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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AUDEN, Wystan Hugh, and Chester KALLMAN.
The Magic Flute.
London, Faber & Faber, [1957].
First UK edition. Auden composed...
£125
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BERARDI, Angelo.
Documenti armonici …
Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1687.
First edition, an exhaustive study of counterpoint...
£1750
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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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BLANKENBURG, Quirinus Gerbrandszoon van.
Elementa musica of niew licht tot het welverstaan...
The Hague, Laurens Berkoske, 1739.
First edition, very scarce.
£1500
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BROWN, Arthur Henry.
Autograph manuscript notebook mainly of...
[Brentwood?, 1864–87].
An autograph manuscript notebook composed...
£450
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[CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]
Two anonymous manuscript scores.
London, 1820s.
Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...
£850
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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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[CHANSONS.]
Manuscript collection of arias, chansons,...
c. 1795.
A fascinating manuscript collection of...
£2400
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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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CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.
Manuscript score of a collection of six...
Italy, mid-eighteenth century.
A collection of secular madrigals for two...
£1800
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CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.
Manuscript score ‘VI Duetti Madrigaleschi’.
[Italian, late eighteenth century?]
A collection of six madrigals for two voices,...
£850
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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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ELISABETH, Empress of Austria.
A collection of six manuscript scores from...
1850–60s.
Elizabeth Amalie Eugenie of Bavaria (1837–1898),...
£3750
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ESSER, [Karl?] Michael, Ritter von.
Sei Quartetti per due violini viola, e...
[Venice, Marescalchi e Canobbio, 1774?]
First edition, very rare, of a complete...
£1750
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FABRIZI, Pietro.
Regole generali di canto fermo raccolte...
Rome, Mascardi, 1708.
‘Fourth’ edition of a small practical...
£500
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[FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.]
Psalms, Hymns & Anthems used in the Chapel...
[London], 1774 [but c. 1780?]
The Foundling Hospital was established...
£750