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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.]
Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...
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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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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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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[CHANSONS.]
Manuscript collection of arias, chansons,...
[France (Nantes?), c. 1795.]
A fascinating manuscript collection...
£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 ‘VI Duetti Madrigaleschi’.
[Italian, late eighteenth century?]
A collection of six madrigals for two voices,...
£850
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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...
£1800
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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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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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[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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[FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.]
Psalms, Hymns & Anthems used in the Chapel...
[London], 1774 [but c. 1780?]
The Foundling Hospital was established...
£750
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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