Portrait engraving
by ARNE, Thomas Augustine 1710-1778
London: C. Stalker, 1791. 156 x 111 mm. Stipple engraving on wove paper. Half length, within oval, with "Dr. Thos. Aug. Arne." below image and imprint beneath. Provenance: The collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (b. 1934). Edges reinforced with stiff paper border; adhesive stains to verso. Arne is considered the most significant composer of 18th-century English theatre music. "Horne had a voice of extraordinary range, rich and tangy in timbre, with a stentorian... Read More
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Half-length oval portrait stipple engraving
by ARNE, Thomas Augustine 1710-1778
[?London], 1791. 138 x 96 mm. The image within an ornamental border within yellow hand-colored frame and hand-drawn rules. Hinged at upper margin; slightly worn and foxed. Arne is considered to be the most significant figure in 18th century English theatre music.
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The King and the Miller. Set by Mr. Arne. Plate 40 from George Bickham's The Musical Entertainer
by ARNE, Thomas Augustine 1710-1778
London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 1 leaf, with a large elaborate vignette to head illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and bass with a separate part for flute. Signed in the plate by the engraver, G. Bickham. Ca. 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; minor soiling and dampstaining; slightly creased. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in 1737-1739. BUC... Read More
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![Two to One A Comic Opera. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/907/435/989435907.0.l.jpg)
Two to One A Comic Opera. [Piano-vocal score]
by ARNOLD, Samuel 1740-1802
Melville, N.Y.: Belwin Mills, 1970. Oblong folio. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), pp. 4-48, p. 49 (cast list), [vii] (blank) pp. Wrappers very slightly worn. A facsimile of an early edition.
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![Summer Amusement or An Adventure at Margate (Music Partly Compiled by Arne, Giordani, Dibdin). [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/785/435/989435785.0.l.jpg)
Summer Amusement or An Adventure at Margate (Music Partly Compiled by Arne, Giordani, Dibdin). [Piano-vocal score]
by ARNOLD, Samuel 1740-1802
Melville, N.Y.: Belwin Mills, 1970. Oblong folio. Original publisher's printed wrappers. [i] (title), [i] (blank), 41, [v] (blank) pp. Wrappers very slightly worn. Facsimile of an early edition.
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The first Scene of the Maid of the Mill, as Designed by Mr. Richards. Fine large engraving by William Woollett (1735-1785) after the painting by John Inigo Richards (1731-1810)
by ARNOLD, Samuel 1740-1802
London: Wm. Woollett, 1768. Large oblong folio. Image size 380 x 470 mm., sheet size 406 x 480 mm. Printed on ivory laid paper. The scene depicts a barn to the left with two women standing by the entrance, one of them (Fanny) is mending a net. There is a mill in the centre, from which a person looks out a window; a man carries a sack over a gate. A woman (Patty) sits reading in the... Read More
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![Inkle and Yarico. A Comick Opera As Perform'd at the Theatre Royal in the Hay Market The Words by George Colman Esqr. Junr. ... Adapted for the Voice, Harpsichord, Piano Forte &c. Opera XXXth. ... Price 10s/6d. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/020/604/1769604020.0.l.jpg)
Inkle and Yarico. A Comick Opera As Perform'd at the Theatre Royal in the Hay Market The Words by George Colman Esqr. Junr. ... Adapted for the Voice, Harpsichord, Piano Forte &c. Opera XXXth. ... Price 10s/6d. [Piano-vocal score]
by ARNOLD, Samuel 1740-1802
London: Printed & Sold Longman & Broderip No. 26 Cheapside, & No. 13 Hay Market, 1787. Oblong folio. Disbound. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (index), 2-45, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. Overture arranged for keyboard. Scored primarily for voice and figured bass with occasionally fleshed-out keyboard textures and a violin part or parts notated on one staff above the voice. With Arnold's autograph initials to lower inner corner of title. Provenance Noted American... Read More
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Thoscanello de la Musica di Messer Pietro Aaron Fiorentino Canonico da Rimini. Con Privilegio
by ARON, Pietro ca. 1480-ca. 1550
Venice: Impressa in Vinegia per maestro Bernardino et maestro Mattheo di uitali fratelli Venitiani, 1523. Full vellum with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (early manuscript on vellum with decorative initials in red ink and decorative penwork in red and blue, decorative pointers in black), 1f. (recto title printed in red within highly decorative woodcut border, verso privilege), 1f. (dedication to Sebastiano Michele) with historiated initial), 2ff. (contents and full-page woodcut portrait of Aron), 21ff. Libro Primo, 1f. (recto full... Read More
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Theatrical and Musical Memoirs
by ARONSON, Rudolf
New York: McBridge, Nast, 1913. Large octavo. Original publisher's full black cloth with decorative device gilt to upper and titling gilt to spine. 283 pp. With illustrative plates. Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped; former owner's signature to front free endpaper. With an autograph letter from the author dated November 29, 1889 sending a check for the Santa Claus Festival and requesting two tickets. Worn and browned; creased at folds; chips and tears to edges; remnants of former mount... Read More
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La Scala With an Introduction by Paolo Grassi and Testimony to Times Past by Mario Labroca
by ARRUGA, Lorenzo
New York: Praeger, 1976. Folio. Boards. 314 pp. In dustjacket.
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Fine large three-quarter length lithograph by Charles Baugniet (1814-1886) of the violinist in formal dress, leaning in Napoleonic stance on a decoratively carved sideboard on which rest an apparent musical manuscript in progress entitled "Adagio," an inkpot, and quill pen, with a violin on a carved chair to the subject's left
by ARTÔT, Alexandre [Montagny, Joseph] 1815-1845
430 x 315 mm. + wide margins. Signed by the artist ("C Baugniet") in the stone. On chine-appliqué, with "Dessins d'Après Nature par Baugniet," "Imprimé par Degobert" and "Lithie. de la Société des Beaux-Arts" printed to mount just beneath image. Margins slightly soiled and foxed; edges slightly worn. A highly talented Belgian virtuoso, Artôt was a student of both Rodolphe and Auguste Kreutzer. "In 1843 Artôt [he] on a concert tour of America and Cuba with the... Read More
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Records of English Court Music. Volume IX (Index)
by ASHBEE, Andrew
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Large octavo. Red boards. 238 pp.
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![La Campana di Morte. [Musical manuscript]. Italy, ca. 1800-1810](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/222/598/1403598222.0.l.jpg)
La Campana di Morte. [Musical manuscript]. Italy, ca. 1800-1810
by ASIOLI, Bonifazio 1769-1832
Oblong quarto (ca. 215 x 285 mm). Sewn. [1] (title), [9] pp. Scored for soprano and keyboard. Notated in dark brown ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Slightly worn; outermost leaves browned, creased, and lightly soiled; some showthrough; minor foxing. RISM (an edition published in Zürich by Nägeli, AA2502III, 50). "Asioli's music is now forgotten, although the brilliance of his talent was widely acknowledged by his contemporaries. His idiom, pleasant and at times sentimental, is at... Read More
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![[Le Maçon Opéra en trois Actes]. Der Maurer Oper in drei Acten... vollständiger Klavier Auszug. Mit deutschem und französischen Text. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/536/186/1119186536.0.l.jpg)
[Le Maçon Opéra en trois Actes]. Der Maurer Oper in drei Acten... vollständiger Klavier Auszug. Mit deutschem und französischen Text. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Berlin: Fr. Laue [PN 78], 1830. Oblong folio. Original publisher's brown wrappers with titling within decorative border. Lacking title, [3] (cast list and contents), 4-171, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Wrappers worn and soiled, with minor stains and tears repaired to upper; spine and lower lacking, replaced with contemporary paper. Lacking title; minor to moderate foxing; occasional minor tears to lower margins; staining to lower margins of final leaves. First German edition. AWV 13. Schneider p. 129.
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![Le Lac Des Fées Opéra en Cinq Actes Paroles de MM. Scribe et Melesville. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/425/706/1424706425.0.l.jpg)
Le Lac Des Fées Opéra en Cinq Actes Paroles de MM. Scribe et Melesville. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Paris: Troupenas & Cie. [PN T. 710], 1839. Folio. Disbound. No. 2 bis. Air chanté par Mr. Duprez. Prix: 4f. 50c. 9 pp. No. 4. Air chanté par Mlle. Nau. Prix: 4f. 50c. 9 pp. No. 5. Air chanté par Mme. Stolz. Prix: 3f. 5 pp. No. 6. Romance chantée par Mlle. Nau. Prix: 2f. 3 pp. No. 7 bis. Air chanté par Mr. Levasseur. (Transposé pour Voix de Tenor). Prix: 4f. 50c. 9 pp.... Read More
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![Le Domino Noir (Il Domino Nero.) Opera in Three Acts... with Italian and English Words, the Latter by Charles L. Kenney. Edited by Arthur Sullivan and J. Pittman. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/646/206/1123206646.0.l.jpg)
Le Domino Noir (Il Domino Nero.) Opera in Three Acts... with Italian and English Words, the Latter by Charles L. Kenney. Edited by Arthur Sullivan and J. Pittman. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
London: Boosey and Co, 1880. Large octavo. Quarter black cloth with marbled boards and titling gilt to spine, pink endpapers, original publisher's decorative light orange upper wrapper bound in. 1f. (recto title, verso printing colophon), 1f. (recto contents, verso cast list and plot), 256 pp., 2ff. (publisher's catalogue). Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; spine slightly discoloured, head slightly defective. Occasional minor foxing; light annotations in red crayon; moderate foxing to last two leaves. AWV 30. Second version,... Read More
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![[AWV 17]. La Fiancée Die Braut Opéra en 3 Actes ... Klavier-Auszug ... Der deutsche Text, zum Gebrauch für die Königl. Oper zu Berlin, vom Baron von Lichtenstein. No. 1540. Pr. 3 Rth. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/073/815/970815073.0.l.jpg)
[AWV 17]. La Fiancée Die Braut Opéra en 3 Actes ... Klavier-Auszug ... Der deutsche Text, zum Gebrauch für die Königl. Oper zu Berlin, vom Baron von Lichtenstein. No. 1540. Pr. 3 Rth. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Berlin: Ad. Mt. Schlesinger [PN 1540], 1835. Oblong folio. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers with titling within decorative border. 1f. (title with list of individual pieces and their prices), [1] (blank), 2-102 pp. Engraved. Uncut. Text in French and German. Provenance: The noted music collector and bibliographer Anthony von Hoboken, with his small decorative bookplate with nautical motif to upper outer corner of verso of upper wrapper. Wrappers frayed at edges, soiled, and somewhat darkened; spine... Read More
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![[AWV 35]. Le Duc d'Olonne Opéra Comique en trois Actes Paroles de Messieurs Scribe et Saintine ... Partition réduite avec accompagnement de piano Der Herzog von Olonne Komische Oper in drei Akten nach dem Französischen der Herren Scribe und Saintine ... für die deutsche Bühne bearbeitet von Heinrich Börnstein vollständiger Clavier Auszug No. 6808 ... Pr: 14 fl. 24 kr. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/324/035/906035324.0.l.jpg)
[AWV 35]. Le Duc d'Olonne Opéra Comique en trois Actes Paroles de Messieurs Scribe et Saintine ... Partition réduite avec accompagnement de piano Der Herzog von Olonne Komische Oper in drei Akten nach dem Französischen der Herren Scribe und Saintine ... für die deutsche Bühne bearbeitet von Heinrich Börnstein vollständiger Clavier Auszug No. 6808 ... Pr: 14 fl. 24 kr. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Mainz Antwerpen und Brüssel: B. Schott's Söhnen [PN 6808 (0-12)], 1842. Folio. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 1f. (title), 1f. (cast list and table of contents), 15, (libretto in German), [i] (blank), 202 pp. Music engraved, libretto typeset. Partially uncut. Text in German and French. With printed label of the Musikalien-Leihanstalt F.v. Kittlitz-Schott in Mainz, with contemporary manuscript titling and shelfmark, to lower margin of upper wrapper. Wrappers quite worn and soiled with some splitting, tearing, loss, and... Read More
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![Fra Diavolo An Opera in Three Acts ... Novello's Original Octavo Edition ... Edited and Transtlated into English by Natalia Macfarren Price Three Shillings and Sixpence. Cloth, gilt, 5s. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/628/206/1123206628.0.l.jpg)
Fra Diavolo An Opera in Three Acts ... Novello's Original Octavo Edition ... Edited and Transtlated into English by Natalia Macfarren Price Three Shillings and Sixpence. Cloth, gilt, 5s. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
London: Novello and Company, 1910. Large octavo. Full red cloth with decorative blindstamping and titling gilt to upper and spine. 1f. (recto title, verso colophon ), 1f. (recto cast list and scene description, verso editor's note), 240 pp., 1f. (recto index, verso printer's device), 5ff. (publisher's catalogue). Text in English and French. Binding slightly worn, rubbed and bumped; front free endpaper lacking; rear endpapers browned; hinges split; former owner's signature to front pastedown, one crossed out in black... Read More
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![Fra Diavolo. Opera in Three Acts ... with Italian and (the Original) English Words. Edited by Arthur Sullivan and J. Pittman. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/837/435/989435837.0.l.jpg)
Fra Diavolo. Opera in Three Acts ... with Italian and (the Original) English Words. Edited by Arthur Sullivan and J. Pittman. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
London: Boosey & Co, 1890. Large octavo. Original publisher's wrappers. [i] (title), [ii] (printer's statement), [iii] (index), [iv] (dramatis personae and story), 287, [i] (blank), [iv] (publisher's advertisements) pp. Wrappers worn and stained; upper lacking; spine lacking at head and tail. Slightly worn.
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![La Part du Diable des Teufels Antheil (Carlo Broschï.) Komische Oper in 3 Akten Text von Eugène Scribe, Deutsche Übersetzung von H. Börnstein und C. Gollmick ... Klavierauszug mit deutschem und französischem Gesangstext sowie vollständigem deutschem Dialog. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/504/355/1118355504.0.l.jpg)
La Part du Diable des Teufels Antheil (Carlo Broschï.) Komische Oper in 3 Akten Text von Eugène Scribe, Deutsche Übersetzung von H. Börnstein und C. Gollmick ... Klavierauszug mit deutschem und französischem Gesangstext sowie vollständigem deutschem Dialog. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
London, Mayence: Schott & Co., B. Schott's Söhne [PN 7110 bis], 1890. Large octavo. Half yellow cloth with textured paper boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (title), 1f. (cast list and contents), 253, [i] (blank) pp. Small tape repair to verso of title and second leaf. "[Auber] was the foremost representative of this genre in 19th-century France... In the important and more serious works of his middle creative period (L'ambassadrice, 1836; Le domino noir, 1837; Les diamants de... Read More
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![[AWV 26]. Actéon Opéra comique en un acte. Paroles de E. Scribe ... Partition Piano et Chant. Prix 8.F net. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/526/034/906034526.0.l.jpg)
[AWV 26]. Actéon Opéra comique en un acte. Paroles de E. Scribe ... Partition Piano et Chant. Prix 8.F net. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Paris: Brandus et Cie. [PN T. 1407], 1850. Quarto. Quarter mid-tan calf with marbled boards and black leather title label gilt to spine. 1f. (title), 93, [i] (blank) pp. Title lithographed, music engraved. Additional plate number to pp. 1 and 8: B. et Cie 8252. Spoken dialogue not included. Publisher's handstamp to lower right corner of title. Handstamp, "Achat de Musique neuve et d'occasion C. Pugno 19 Quai des Gds Augustins Paris," to front flyleaf. Spine partially detached.... Read More
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![[AWV 44]. Jenny Bell Opéra-Comique en 3 Actes, Poëme de M. Eugène Scribe... Partition pour Piano et Chant Réduite par Vauthrot. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/031/956/970956031.0.l.jpg)
[AWV 44]. Jenny Bell Opéra-Comique en 3 Actes, Poëme de M. Eugène Scribe... Partition pour Piano et Chant Réduite par Vauthrot. [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Paris: J. Meissonnier [PN 5606], 1856. Large octavo. Half dark olive green leather with patterned green cloth boards, spine in decorative compartments and titling gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list and contents, verso blank), 251, [i] (blank) pp. Binding worn; spine slightly defective. Slightly worn and foxed; small oval publisher's handstamp to lower outer corner of title. First Edition. Schneider p. 1362.
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![Fra Diavolo Opéra Comique en 3 Actes ... [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/049/301/1419301049.0.l.jpg)
Fra Diavolo Opéra Comique en 3 Actes ... [Piano-vocal score]
by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Paris: Brandus & Cie. [PN B. & Cie. 8255], 1880. Large octavo. Quarter maroon leather with maroon textured paper boards, upper with "M" beneath a crown gilt, spine in gilt-ruled compartments, titling gilt. 1f. (recto title within decorative border by P. Borie, verso blank), 1f. (recto with performance notes, cast list, and contents, verso blank), 374 pp. Lithographed. Armorial bookplate of the "Bibliothèque du Château de Franconville " to front pastedown. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and... Read More
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