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Sale Name
Musical Manuscripts
Auction Date
05/23/2007 - 05/23/2007
Year of Sale
2007
Sale Number
#L07402
Total Lots
192
Sold Lots
121
Lots Sold
63.0%
Unsold Lots
71
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
1,093,540.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
769,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
1,091,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
997,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
1,393,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
78.48%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
1,883,030.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8 BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN. COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT OF THE VIOLIN SONATA IN A OP.47,

GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 311,200.00
76 HAYDN, JOSEPH. A HITHERTO UNKNOWN MANUSCRIPT OF HAYDN'S THEMATIC CATALOGUE,

GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 108,000.00
77 HAYDN, JOSEPH. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE FINAL CHORUS OF THE CANTATA ''QUAL DUBBIO ORMAI'' [HOB.XXIVA:4]

GBP 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 96,000.00
117 PETRUCCI, OTTAVIANO. HIGHLY IMPORTANT VOLUME OF FIVE FIRST EDITIONS, [CHOIRBOOKS, CONTAINING ALL VOICES],

1503-1505

 GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 90,000.00
54 ELGAR, SIR EDWARD. FIVE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT COMPOSITION DRAFTS FOR THE ''ENIGMA''

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 78,000.00
161 SIBELIUS, JEAN. FINE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF MALINCONIA OP.20, FOR CELLO AND PIANO, SIGNED (''JEAN SIBELIUS'')

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 43,200.00
158 SCHUBERT, FRANZ. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF TWO SONGS, ''GEIST DER LIEBE'' (D.233) AND ''DER ABEND'' (D.221)

GBP 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 33,600.00
101 MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THREE EARLY SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 21,600.00
85 KORNGOLD, ERICH WOLFGANG (1891-1959). AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF ''PASSOVER-PSALM" OP.30

GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 16,800.00
96 MASSENET, JULES. FINE AND COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF OVER FIFTY FIRST EDITIONS,

GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 16,800.00
184 VILLA-LOBOS, HEITOR. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF BACHIANAS BRASILEIRAS NO.3, SIGNED TWICE

GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 16,800.00
171 STRAVINSKY, IGOR. FOUR MANUSCRIPT VOCAL PART-BOOKS FOR THE OPERA ''MAVRA''

GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 15,600.00
130 PUCCINI, GIACOMO. MADAMA BUTTERFLY [VOCAL SCORE],

[FEBRUARY 1904]

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 9,600.00
34 [CAMPRA, ANDRE] LATE SEVENTEENTH OR EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT

GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 9,600.00
120 e - PUCCINI, GIACOMO. SEVENTEEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND TWO AUTOGRAPH CARDS SIGNED

GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 9,600.00
119 PRAETORIUS, MICHAEL. SYNTAGMA MUSICUM [...THEATRUM INSTRUMENTORUM] ,

1615-1620

 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 7,800.00
136 SATIE, ERIK. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF ''SPORTS ET DIVERTISSEMENTS''

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 7,200.00
78 HAYDN, JOSEPH. VI ORIGINAL CANZONETTAS

[1794]

 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 6,600.00
107 MILHAUD, DARIUS. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE SUITE FOR PIANO ''L'ENFANT AIME''

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,600.00
17 BERLIOZ, HECTOR. FINE LARGE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BELOW THE IMAGE

[c. 1863]

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 6,000.00
82 ITALIAN OPERA. THE ARCHIVE OF THE COMPOSER HENRY D'ARCIS

GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 6,000.00
6 f - BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN--FORKEL, JOHANN NICOLAUS. COLLECTION OF TWENTY-SIX AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,000.00
106 MILHAUD, DARIUS. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF MILHAUD'S ARRANGEMENT OF THE ENTRACTE CINEMA...

GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,400.00
1 ABEL, CARL FRIEDRICH AND MICHAEL CHRISTIAN FESTING. SIX SONATAS FOR TWO VIOLINS, OR A GERMAN FLUTE AND VIOLIN,

[C.1770]

 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 5,400.00
179 VERDI, GIUSEPPE. AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION SIGNED (''GVERDI''), FROM ''FALSTAFF''

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 5,040.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.