Music
Collection of volumes of engraved music including Scottish Highland music, 18th-19th century
£1,638
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Gow, Niel, of Dunkeld. A Collection of Strathspey Reels with a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord. Edinburgh: printed for the author, c.1800. 36 pp., engraved throughout, bound with other works including: A New and Complete Collection of Scots Songs. Edinburgh: Corri & Sutherland, c.1790; A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs never hitherto published … by Patrick McDonald, Minister of Kilmore in Argyleshire, Edinburgh: for the publisher, c.1790;
Urbani, Peter. A Selection of Scots Songs. Harmonized, improved with Simple and Adapted Graces. Book 1st [-2nd]. Edinburgh: printed for the author, [1792-4]. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio, contemporary half calf, book 1st list of subscribers repaired, bound with at rear, A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs for the Voice, London: Preston & Co., c.1800, and a fragment.
Together with: 5 further volumes of music, including a volume containing Beethoven's Egmont Overture (Mainz: B. Schott, 19th century) and similar pieces, and a volume of manuscript music, a few covers detached; and 2 large-format 19th-century Murray family photograph albums (10)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.