Catalogue of the highly important Toulouse-Philidor collection of manuscript and printed music and other valuable manuscripts and printed books. [ Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 26 June, 1978. ]

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 1978. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 87 pp, plates (frontispiece in colour) , ills. 182 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: "French manuscript and printed music of the late XVIIth and early XVIIIth century, mainly operas and ballets, including 30 works by Jean- Baptiste Lully and works by Campra, Colasse, Couperin, Desmarets, Destouches, de la Coste, collections of Motets by Lalande, and works by other composers of the period; and a manuscript gradual and antiphoner written by Philidor l'Aisné for the Chapel Royal of Louis XIV; books on travel and topography, including Krusenstern, Voyage round the world, 2 vol. in 1, 1813; English and Continental literature of the XVIth to the XIXth century, including "three- decker" English novels; St. Anselm, Opuscula, (Strassburg, c.1500); Cicero, (Opera), 10 vol. in 5, Narcissus Luttrell's copy, Venice 1583; Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura, 1651; a manuscript on vellum, "Catalogue of the five conquerors of this island", 13 coloured coats-of-arms, (1606); Notes and queries, the first to fourth series, 1850-67; G. Valla, De expetendis, et fugiendis rebus opus...de arithmetica...de musica...(etc.), Venice, Aldus, 1501; works on antiquities and natual history, including Graevius, Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae (et Sicilae), 20 vol. in 24, 1704-25; Gmelin, Flora sibirica, 4 vol., 1747-69; Orme, Essay on transparent prints, 1807. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with three coloured tape bands around the spine. Some scribbled prices and notes to contents, otherwise Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names and list of estimates laid in.