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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
20 November 2014 • London
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207 lots
  • Large self caricature signed and inscribed ("Enrico Caruso 1918")
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("L. Cherubini"), about the design of a proposed theatre in Vienna.
    Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine autograph letter signed ("Charles Czerny"), in English, to his London publisher Robert Cocks, about Mozart, with a musical quotation from the Divertimento in D, K.334,
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Cabinet-style photograph signed ("EdwardElgar: Feb 10:1901"), and inscribed on the verso to his amanuensis, John Austin, naming the "Enigma" Variations and five other compositions
    Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine autograph manuscript of two unpublished waltzes for piano, each signed ("f.de flotow"), in an album
    Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Important letter inscribed and signed ("Mich bestens empfehlend JWGoethe"), to an unidentified correspondent, CONCERNING HIS CANTATA FOR ZELTER'S SEVENTIETH-BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS ORGANIZED BY THE BERLIN SING-AKADEMIE
    Estimate: 12,000 – 15,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Mottetti ad una et piu Voci con Sinfonia dedicata A.S.A.R. Il Signor Duca d'Orleans, da Gio: Antonio Guido genovese, Opera prima, Paris: Foucault, 1707
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine large oil portrait presumed to be Handel in 1734
    Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Dr Haydn's VI Original Canzonettas, London: for the Author, Corri, Dussek & Co. [1794], signed by Haydn on the title ("Haydn[paraph]")
    Estimate: 4,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Manuscript, with autograph additions, of Jarre's incidental music to Molière's Le malade imaginaire,
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph manuscript of "La passion selon Saint Luc"
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph manuscript of part of the opéra-ballet "Armida"
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED