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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.-
[ANTIPHONAL.]
Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...
£3500
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ZARLINO, Gioseffo.
Le Istitutioni harmoniche … nelle quali;...
Venice, [Pietro da Fino], 1558.
First edition, rare, of ‘arguably the...
£15000
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CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.
La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.
Second edition, published in the same year...
£2250
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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 remarkable...
£2800
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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 copy...
£2750
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PLAYFORD, John.
Psalms & Hymns in solemn Musick of foure...
London, Printed by W. Godbid for J. Playford,...
First edition of the first harmonised Psalter...
£1850
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[MENESTRIER, Claude François.]
Des representations en musique anciennes...
Paris, René Guignard, 1681.
First edition. A Jesuit professor at Lyons...
£600
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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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FABRIZI, Pietro.
Regole generali di canto fermo raccolte...
Rome, Mascardi, 1708.
‘Fourth’ edition of a small practical...
£500
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D’URFEY, Thomas.
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy;...
Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].
The first complete edition, second issue...
£2250
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COLLIN DE BLAMONT, François.
Les festes grecques et romaines, ballet...
Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, 1723.
First edition of the first ‘Ballet-héroïque’,...
£3500
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[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]
La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...
Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.
First edition, very rare, of the libretto...
£1250
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MALCOLM, Alexander.
A Treatise of Musick, speculative, practical...
London, J. Osborn and T. Longman, F. Fayram,...
First London edition of the first history...
£1100
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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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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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[SCHOLZE, Johann Sigismund.]
Sperontes singende Muse an der Pleisse...
Leipzig, auf kosten der lüstigen Gesellschaft...
Second edition of the first part, first...
£4500
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GREENE, Maurice.
Forty select Anthems in Score composed...
London. J. Walsh, 1743.
First edition. Greene was organist and...
£850
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TANS’UR, William.
The Royal Psalmodist compleat: or, the...
[St Neots?,] Printed by the Author, 1750.
Unrecorded edition of Tans’ur’s Royal...
£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 two...
£1800
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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