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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.
  1. [ADOLPHUS, Prince, later Duke of Cambridge.]

    Manuscript collection of fifty-four songs...

    [Hanover?, 1796.]

    The seventh son of George III and Queen...

    £2850

  2. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

    Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

    An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

    £4250

  3. ARISTIDES, Aelius. 

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566. 

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable...

    £2750

  4. BLANCHET, Joseph.

    L’art, ou les principes philosophiques...

    Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel...

    First edition. The designation ‘IIe edition,...

    £750

  5. BLANKENBURG, Quirinus Gerbrandszoon van.

    Elementa musica of niew licht tot het welverstaan...

    The Hague, Laurens Berkoske, 1739.

    First edition, very scarce.

    £1500

  6. BROWN, Arthur Henry.

    Autograph manuscript notebook mainly of...

    [Brentwood?, 1864–87].

    An autograph manuscript notebook composed...

    £450

  7. [CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]

    Two anonymous manuscript scores.

    London, 1820s.

    Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...

    £850

  8. CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo. 

    La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...

    Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559. 

    Second edition, published in the same...

    £2250

  9. CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.

    Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne...

    Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].

    First edition, very rare, of this libretto...

    £275

  10. [CHANSONS.]

    Manuscript collection of arias, chansons,...

    [France (Nantes?), c. 1795.]

    A fascinating manuscript collection...

    £2400

  11. CHERUBINI, Luigi.

    Autograph note signed ‘L. Cherubini’...

    [Paris,] 19 December 1825.

    A short note in which the composer and...

    £350

  12. CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.

    Manuscript score ‘VI Duetti Madrigaleschi’.

    [Italian, late eighteenth century?]

    A collection of six madrigals for two voices,...

    £850

  13. CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.

    Manuscript score of a collection of six...

    Italy, mid-eighteenth century.

    A collection of secular madrigals for...

    £1800

  14. DELLOYE, H.-L. (editor).

    Chants et chansons populaires de la France...

    Paris, Félix Locquin [– Dondey-Dupré;...

    First edition of a finely illustrated,...

    £450

  15. 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

  16. FABRIZI, Pietro.

    Regole generali di canto fermo raccolte...

    Rome, Mascardi, 1708.

    ‘Fourth’ edition of a small practical...

    £500

  17. [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

  18. [FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.]

    Psalms, Hymns & Anthems used in the Chapel...

    [London], 1774 [but c. 1780?]

    The Foundling Hospital was established...

    £750

  19. FREZZA DALLE GROTTE, Gioseppe.

    Il Cantore ecclesiastico breve, facile,...

    Padua, Stamperia del Seminario (Giovanni...

    First edition of an uncommon plainchant...

    £1250

  20. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1911.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £450