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London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1959 4to (28.5 cm), [4], 542 pp. Publisher's cloth. Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum Accessions. Third Series - Part 291 B. Paul Adolf Hirsch (1881-1951) was an industrialist who collected the largest private music library in Europe.

London: Macmillan, 1960 8vo (22 cm), XIII, [1], 191, [1] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed at extremities, bookplate). The book sets out in chronological order the complete work of Chopin, providing each composition with full particulars of publication, dedication, whereabouts of the manuscripts and other relevant details. The musical incipit, on two staves, is quoted for every work. Included numerous appendices, where bibliographical information concerning publication and complete editions is assembled for the first time.

London: Sotheby's, 2018 2 volumes 4to (27 cm), 56 pp; 64 pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). Auction catalogs documenting sales held in London on May 22, 2018. 121 lots, including Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Autograph manuscript of the unfinished Allegro in G for piano four hands (price realised 345,000 GBP); Ravel, Maurice, Autograph manuscript of the vocal score for the cantata "Alcyone" (1902, 150,000 GBP); Autograph manuscript of Strauss's own arrangement for piano four hands of his symphonic fantasy "Aus Italien" (112,500 GBP); Stravinsky, Igor, Autograph working manuscript of part of "L'Oiseau de feu" (1909, 112,500 GBP); Mid-sixteenth-century manuscript of German lute tablature, comprising 35 pieces (106,250 GBP).

The MIT Press, 2006 8vo (23,5 cm), X, 395 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music -- from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres -- were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, although scientists were less interested in the music of the spheres than the natural philosophers of earlier centuries, they remained committed to understanding the world of performing musicians and their instruments. In Harmonious Triads, Myles Jackson analyzes the relationship of physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany. Musical instruments provided physicists with experimental systems, and physicists' research led directly to improvements in musical-instrument manufacture and assisted musicians in their performances. Music also provided scientists with a cultural resource, which forged acquaintances and future… Read More

Paris: Bibliotheque Polonaise, 1918 4to (28 cm), [10], 107, XCIII, [8], pp., 1 woodcut, printed and black and red. Printed wrappers (binding slightly rubbed). No. 841 on verge paper. A history of Polish music by Henryk Opieński (1870 - 1942), Polish composer and musicologist. The book was written in collaboration with G. Koeckert. Preface by A. Sérieyx, wood-engraved initials by B. Czarkowski.

London: Sotheby's, 2015 4to (27 cm), 199, [1] pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). An auction catalog documenting sale held in London on May 28, 2015. 315 lots, including Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, Autograph working manuscript of the orchestral Suite no. 2 op.53 (price realised 329,000 GBP); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Fine autograph manuscript of Mozart’s transcription of the "Stabat Mater" by Marchese Eugenio Ligniville (167,000 GBP); Book of Hours (Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, 19 April 1494, 112,500 GBP); Mann, Thomas, Important series of c. 90 early autograph letters and postcards (100,000 GBP); Theocritus and Dioscorides (Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1499, 77,500 GBP); Wagner, Richard, Autograph sketch-leaf containing drafts and ideas for "Siegfried" and "Siegfrieds Tod" (65,000 GBP); Plato, Opera (Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1513, 56,250 GBP).

Rowman and Littlefield, 1971 12mo (19.5 cm), XIV, 365 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (bookplate). The fourth edition of Theodore Besterman's "A World Bibliography of Bibliographies" was published in 1965-66. It's a monumental edition which contains 6664 columns. Rowman and Littlefield in 18 separate publications gathered all the titles in some of the major fields. The volume on music, opera, vocal music, drama and stage includes approximately 1500 entries.

London: Sotheby's, 2016 2 volumes 4to (27 cm), 160 pp; 24 pp. Laminated wrappers (marked copy, partly priced in pencil). Auction catalogue of a sale held in London on 29 November 2016. 222 entries, including Gustav Mahler's autograph manuscript of the Second Symphony "The Resurrection" (Lot 36 with separate catalogue, sold for £ 4,546,250).

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… Read More

London: Bibliographical Society, 1997 8vo (25 cm), xlix, 521 pp. Publisher's cloth. This volume is a detailed bibliographical description of 180 collections of opera and other secular songs, with a 36 page introduction and full indexes. Hunter lists the first lines of all the songs included in each volume and indexes them so as to allow identification and dating of single songs of the period. Nine other indexes cover composers, singers, literary or dramatic works, short titles, printers and publishers, engravers, passe-partout title-pages, single or double sided volumes, and libraries.

Bruxelles: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2002 8vo (24 cm), 168 pp. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by Adrienne Fontainas to a Belgian bookbinder and bibliophile Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens. The catalogue of an exhibition in Bibliotheca Wittockiana.

Harvard University Press, 1993 8vo (24 cm), [8], 261 pp. Publisher's cloth. From the publisher's description: "From the exhilarating impact of Isaac Albeniz at the beginning of the century to today's complex and adventurous avant-garde, this complete interpretive history introduces twentieth-century Spanish music to English-speaking readers. With graceful authority, Tomas Marco, award-winning composer, critic, and bright light of Spanish music since the 1960s, covers the entire spectrum of composers and their works: trends and movements, critical and popular reception, national institutions, influences from Europe and beyond, and the effect of such historic events as the Spanish Civil War and the death of Franco. Marco's penetrating aesthetic critiques are threaded throughout each phase of this rich account. Marco provides detailed coverage of the key figures, induding a chapter devoted entirely to Manuel de Falla - Spain's most celebrated twentieth-century composer - and a… Read More

München: Ukrainischen Freien Universität, 1990 8vo (24 cm), 374 pp. Publisher's cloth. Ukrainian spiritual music: a contribution to the church music of Eastern Europe.