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Auction Name Music Manuscripts Total Sales (GBP) 1,161,625.00
Auction Date November 28, 2017 - November 28, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 651,200.00
Sale Number #L17406 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 889,700.00
Total Lots 74
Sold Lots 48 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 803,700.00
% of Lots Sold 64.86% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,096,700.00
Unsold Lots 26 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 105.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4 Bartók, Béla

THE AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF THE SECOND RHAPSODY FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO, BB 96

 1928-1929 GBP 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 GBP 309,000.00
32 Handel, George Frideric

AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF AN ARIA FROM AN ITALIAN OPERA, INTENDED FOR "IL PASTOR FIDO" IN 1734

 1734 GBP 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 GBP 181,250.00
42 Mahler, Gustav

AUTOGRAPH SKETCHLEAF FOR THE SECOND SYMPHONY

 1888 GBP 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 81,250.00
5 Bartók, Béla

HIGHLY IMPORTANT SERIES OF FORTY-THREE LETTERS, ALL BUT TWO AUTOGRAPH, WITH OTHER ITEMS, TO THE VIOLINIST ZOLT"N SZÉKELY

 1935 GBP 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 75,000.00
60 Rossini, Gioachino

FINE ALBUM OF TWENTY AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS OF SONGS BY ROSSINI, BELLINI, MEYERBEER, CHERUBINI AND OTHERS

 1835 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 68,750.00
14 Bruckner, Anton

AUTOGRAPH SKETCHLEAF FOR THE SYMPHONY NO.3 IN D MINOR

 1888 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 62,500.00
64 Schoenberg, Arnold, Alban Berg and Anton Webern

ALBUM CONTAINING THREE AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATIONS ON ONE PAGE,

1913, 1918, 1933 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 50,000.00
24 Franck, César

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF  THE "CHORAL II" IN B MINOR FOR ORGAN [MOHR 39]

 [1890]  GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 35,000.00
13 Brahms, Johannes

AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL ALBUM-LEAF OF A "TEMPO DI MENUETTO" FOR PIANO, IN C MINOR

 1863 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
55 Puccini, Giacomo

IMPORTANT PRE-PUBLICATION MANUSCRIPT FULL SCORE OF "GIANNI SCHICCHI"

 [1918 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 31,250.00
45 Mendelssohn Bartholdy [Hensel], Fanny

ALBUM OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MUSICAL MANUSCRIPTS BY FANNY MENDELSSOHN, DARGOMYZHSKY, HUMMEL AND MANY OTHERS

 1831-1875 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 21,250.00
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ALBUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATIONS SIGNED BY STRAUSS, PUCCINI, RACHMANINOV, SIBELIUS, MASSENET, SAINT-SAËNS AND OTHERS

 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
23 Dvorak, Antonin

GOOD LONG AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION FROM THE "SCHERZO-CAPRICCIOSO" FOR ORCHESTRA OP.66, SIGNED ("ANTONIN DVOR"K")

 1883, GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
41 Mahler, Gustav

FINE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE COMPOSER, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED

1907 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
56 Puccini, Giacomo

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF "LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST", A PAGE FROM THE WORKING FULL SCORE OF ACT 2

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
66 Shostakovich, Dmitri

LEDI MAKBET MTSENSKOGO UYEZDA, ... [LADY MACBETH OF THE MTSENSK DISTRICT, OPERA IN 4 ACTS, 9 SCENES...VOCAL SCORE],

 1933 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
74 Wagner, Richard

DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG. VOLLSTÄNDIGER KLAVIERAUSZUG

 1868 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
59 [Puccini, Giacomo]--Elvira Puccini

REMARKABLE LONG TRENCHANT AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY ELVIRA TO HER ERRANT HUSBAND GIACOMO

 1909 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
65 [Schubert, Franz.] Circle of Schubert.

COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED

 1842-1871 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
33 Janácek, Leos

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT INSCRIBED AND SIGNED, AND AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("DR.PH. LEOS JAN"CEK")

 1926 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
52 Offenbach, Jacques

FIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("JACQUES OFFENBACH"; "J. OFFENBACH")

 1864-1874 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 6,875.00
69 Strauss, Richard

FINE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE WALTZ-SEQUENCE 'EINLEITUNG UND WALZER AUS "DER ROSENKAVALIER"', OP.59

 c.1944 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,875.00
10 Bernstein, Leonard

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF SYMPHONY NO.2, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER

 1949 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,000.00
71 Verdi, Giuseppe

DON CARLOS GRAND OPÉRA EN CINQ ACTES  [VOCAL SCORE]

 1867 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,000.00
8 Berlioz, Hector

AUTOGRAPH DRAFT OF A REVIEW OF HIS OWN MUSIC FROM LA DAMNATION DE FAUST, WRITTEN FOR USE BY THE CRITIC JULES JANIN, 21 APRIL 1849

 1849 GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 5,625.00
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