Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts

London: Sotheby's, 2015 4to (27 cm), 171, [1] pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). An auction catalog documenting sale held in London on December 7, 2015. 261 lots, including Haydn, Joseph, Autograph manuscript of the final chorus of the Esterházy Cantata "Qual dubbio ormai (price realised 269,000 GBP); Ravel, Maurice, Fine autograph manuscript of the first movement of the "Sonatine" (245,000 GBP); Dvořák, Antonín, Autograph working draft of part of the Piano Trio Op. 90 (167,000 GBP); Prokofiev, Sergei, Fine autograph manuscript of "Ouverture" for full orchestra, including piano, an early version of the first movement of the "Divertimento", op. 43 (87,500 GBP); Strauss, Johann II, The autograph working manuscript of "Frühlingsstimmen" (75,000 GBP); Cronica cronicarum abbrege et mis par figures descentes et rondeaulx... Paris: Jacques Ferrebouc for Jean Petit and François Regnault, 20 September 1521 (60,000 GBP); Liszt, Franz, Autograph working manuscript of part of the "Grande Fantaisie symphonique" on themes from Berlioz's "Lélio" (60,000 GBP); Sibelius, Jean, Fine autograph working manuscript of "Malinconia", op. 20 (56,250 GBP); Galilei, Galileo Dialogo... dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano (Florence, 1632, 52,500 GBP).