Music - 16 volumes including Mahler, Gustave
Zehnte Symphonie
£1,375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Vienna, 1924. First edition, oblong folio, foreword by Alma Mahler, unbound as issued, in half cloth folder, with 6 fascicles containing c.120 pp of facsimile Ms music, lacking the (often missing) pamphlet "Einführende Bemerkungen" by Richard Specht, original black cloth folder, ties, spine worn; Cherubini Lodoïska, comédie héroique en trois actes. Paris: H. Naderman, [n.d.], 4to, aquatint title, 410pp (marked "Fin") + 2-9pp., contemporary quarter calf, rubbed; Meyerbeer, Giacomo. Robert le Diable, opéra en 5 Actes. Paris: M. Schlesinger, [1831]. 4to, lithographed title, 407pp., contemporary red quarter morocco, slight spotting, especially to title, rubbed; Geminiani, Francesco Concerti Grossi con Due Violini, Violoncello, e Viola di Concertino obligati, et due altri Violini, e Basso di Concerto grosso ad arbitrio... opera seconda. London: I. Walsh, [c.1732], 7 parts, 4to, contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides, rubbed; Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix Ein Sommernachstraum von Shakespeare. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, [1848], First edition, 4to, 177pp., with signature on endpaper of Mandyczewski, original half cloth, boards somewhat discoloured, spine worn; Schumann, Robert Der Rose Pilgerfahrt. Mährchen von Moritz Horn. Op. 112. Leipzig: F. Kistner, [1852], First edition, later issue, pictorial title, 203pp., original brown cloth gilt; Four Operatic scores, bound in purple tooled morocco with coronet: 1) Bellini. I Puritani, Naples and Rome, [n.d.], oblong 4to, recto title with named cast list and table of contents on verso, pp.227; 2) Donizetti, Gaetano. L’Elisire d’Amore, Melodramma. Milan & Florence: G. Ricordi, [c.1840] (vocal score arranged by Luigi Truzzi), [4], 231pp.; 3) Verdi, Giuseppe. I due Foscari... riduzione per Canto con accompagnamento di Pianoforte di L. Truzzi. Milan: G. Ricordi, [n.d.] (vocal score arranged by Luigi Truzzi), 186pp.; 4) Verdi, Giuseppe. Giovanna d’Arco. Milan: Giovanni Ricordi, [n.d.] (early edition dedicated to Giulia Samoyloff), [2], 213pp., all 4 oblong 4to, bindings a bit rubbed, g.e.; sold not subject to return (16)