Sothebys: Music, Continental Printed Books and Manuscripts including Science and Medicine comprising autograph letters, manuscripts and printed books, 4708,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 01, 1994 - December 01, 1994
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Chopin (Fryderyk) | Autograph note signed ("Ch") | USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 102 | Cimarosa (Domenico) | Collection of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century manuscripts of operatic arias etc. | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 103 | Clari (Giovanni Carlo Maria) | Manuscript of a "Credo" in C major | Pisa | 1732 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 104 | Clementi (Muzio) | Autograph letter signed ("Muzio Clementi") | London | 19 May 1786 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 805.00 |
| 105 | Clementi (Muzio) | Autograph letter signed ("Muzio Clementi") | London | 4 April 1820 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 920.00 |
| 106 | Clementi (Muzio) | Important autograph letter signed ("MuzioClementi") | Berne | 26 June 1784 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 107 | Clementi (Muzio) | Important autograph letter signed ("Muzio Clementi") | London | 21 December 1798 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 108 | Clementi (Muzio) | Important autograph letter signed ("MuzioClementi") | Vienna | 24 December 1806 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 109 | Composers | [c. 1859-1923] |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 110 | Composers | Buenos Aires or Palermo | 1918-1944 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 111 | Composers | 1883-1929 |
GBP 550.00 - 600.00 | 575.00 | ||
| 112 | Czerny (Carl) | Fine autograph manuscript of the "Pensee Fugitive" | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 113 | corelli (Arcangelo) | Opera prima [...Quarta] | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 805.00 | ||
| 114 | Corelli (Arcangelo) | Concerti grossi | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 115 | Corrette (Michel) | Le maitre de clavecin | Paris | 1753 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,150.00 |
| 116 | Debussy (Claude) | Autograph musical quotation signed ("Claude Debussy") | July 1900 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 117 | Delius (Frederick) | Autograph musical quotation signed ("Frederick Delius") | USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 118 | Delius (Frederick) | Autograph letter signed | 1914 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 119 | Diabelli (Anton) | Autograph manuscript of the "Marcia funebre su la morte di sua altezza imperiale | 1853 |
USD 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 120 | Diaghilev (Sergei Pavlovich) | Manuscript contract in French | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 690.00 | ||
| 121 | Diaghilev (Sergei Pavlovich) | Important series of six letters signed and annotated by Diaghilev | St Petersburg | January to March 1908 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 122 | Diaghilev (Sergei Pavlovich) | Typed agreement in Russian | St Petersburg | 2 October 1912 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 747.00 |
| 123 | Diaghilev (Sergei Pavlovich) | Typed letter signed ("Serge de Diaghileef") | Paris | early 1908 |
GBP 500.00 - 550.00 | 460.00 |
| 124 | Doni (Giovanni Battista) | Fine autograph letter signed ("Gio: Battista Doni") | Rome | April 1629 |
USD 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 125 | Donizetti (Gaetano) | Autograph manuscript of "Canzone Napoletana" | 1830s |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,530.00 | |
| 126 | Donizetti (Gaetano) | Autograph musical quotation signed ("GDonizetti") | [c.1840] |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 862.00 | |
| 127 | Donizetti (Gaetano) | Fine autograph letter signed ("Donizetti") | Vienna | 23 May 1843 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 128 | Donizetti (Gaetano) | Autograph letter signed ("II vostro servitore Girella Donizetti") | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 129 | Dvorak (Antonin) | Autograph letter signed ("ADvorak") | Prague | 10 October [18]87 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 130 | Dvorak (Antonin) | Fine autograph musical quotation signed of the opening of the "Dies Irae" from the Requiem | Frankfurt | 7 November 1890 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 | 4,025.00 |
| 131 | Dvorak (Antonin) | Birmingham | Birmingham | 1885 |
GBP 500.00 - 550.00 | 517.00 |
| 132 | Dvorak (Antonin) | Requiem Mass | 9 October 1891 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,150.00 | |
| 133 | Elgar (Sir Edward) | Collection of autograph letters and annotated proofs | 1903-1904 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,725.00 | |
| 134 | Elgar (Sir Edward) | Autograph musical quotation from the first symphony | Gloucester | 1910 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 1,150.00 |
| 135 | Elgar (Sir Edward) | Two proof copies of the full score of "The Kingdom" | Leipzig | 2 Aug 06 [1906-1907] |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 136 | Elgar (Sir Edward) | Good collection of sixteen letters signed ("Edward Elgar") | London, Hereford, Manchester | 1903-1934 |
GBP 2,300.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,450.00 |
| 137 | Elgar (Sir Edward) | Four autograph and typed letters signed ("Edward Elgar") | Worcester | 1931-1933 |
GBP 800.00 - 900.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 138 | Elgar (Sir Edward) | Series of nine autograph letters signed ("Edward Elgar") | 1897 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,530.00 | |
| 139 | English music | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 140 | English music | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 141 | English music | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 690.00 | |||
| 142 | Erard (Sebastian) | Erard's stock books | GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 13,800.00 | ||
| 143 | Faure (Gabriel) | Autograph manuscript of the Prelude in D flat major for piano | 1909-1910 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 6,900.00 | |
| 144 | Faure (Gabriel) | Autograph letter signed | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 145 | Falia (Manuel de) | Autograph musical quotation from the "Three-cornered Hat" | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 | ||
| 146 | Forkel (Johann Nikolaus) | Allgemeine Literatur der musik | Leipzig | 1792 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 414.00 |
| 147 | French music | GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,840.00 | |||
| 148 | French musicians | Paris, Lithuania, India, Chicago, California and elsewhere | 1912 to 1980s |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 149 | Gershwin (George) | Early autograph Letter signed ("George") | 11 September 1918 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,220.00 | |
| 150 | Gershwin (George) | Fine photograph signed ("GeorgeGershwin") | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,610.00 | ||
| 151 | Gerber (Ernst Ludwig) | Neues historisch-biographisches Lexicon der Tonkunst | GBP 800.00 - 900.00 | 920.00 | ||
| 152 | Giordano (Umberto) | Autograph manuscript of "Crepuscolo triste" | Milan | 4 May 1904 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 153 | Giordano (Umberto) | Autograph working manuscript and sketches for his final opera | [1928] |
USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 154 | Glazunov (Alexander) | Proof copy of "Karelskaya legenda" | Moscow | 1 September 1917 |
USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 155 | Glazunov (Alexander) | Two large printed documents signed ("AGlazunov") | St Petersburg | 1908 and 1910 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 156 | Glazunov (Alexander) | Autograph musical quotation signed ("Alexandre Giazounow") | Lisbon | 26 January 1929 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 402.00 |
| 157 | Gluck (Christoph Willibald) | Echo et Narcise Drame lyrique | Paris | 1779 |
USD 500.00 - 550.00 | Not Sold |
| 158 | Gluck (Christoph Willibald) | Orphee et Euridice | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 159 | Gounod (charles) | Autograph manuscript of a Quintet for string quartet and horn in C major | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 | ||
| 160 | Gounod (Charles) | Autograph sketch of a fugue | GBP 450.00 - 500.00 | 402.00 | ||
| 161 | Gradual | 1742 |
GBP 500.00 - 550.00 | 460.00 | ||
| 162 | Gozzi (Carlo, Italian playwright, 1720-1806) | Autograph letter signed ("Carlo Gozzi") | Padua | 7 July 1790 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 |
| 163 | Grainger (Percy) | Fine large photograph of the youthful composer | USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 164 | Grieg (Edvard) | Cabinet-style photograph signed and inscribed on verso ("EdvardGrieg") | May 1886 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 165 | Grieg (Edvard) | Autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed ("EdvardGrieg Wien 6/1/97") | Vienna | 1897 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 166 | Grieg (Edvard) | Autograph letter signed ("EdvardGrieg") | 7 May 1904 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 167 | Grieg (Edvard) | Autograph musical quotation signed ("Edvard Grieg") | Birmingham | August 1888 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 168 | Handel (George Frideric) | L'allegro | [1770-1771] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 506.00 | |
| 169 | Handel (George Frideric) | Sonatas or Chamber Aires for a German Flute | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 747.00 | ||
| 170 | Handel (George Frideric) | Jephtha an Oratorio in Score | [1770] |
USD 500.00 - 550.00 | Not Sold | |
| 171 | Handel (George Frideric) | Fine eighteenth-century manuscript of keyboard transcriptions | GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,680.00 | ||
| 172 | [Handel (George Frideric)]---Mainwaring (John) | Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic: Handel | 1760 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 345.00 | |
| 173 | Harp | GBP 500.00 - 550.00 | 402.00 | |||
| 174 | Hawkins (Sir John) | A General history of the science and practice of music | 1776 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 175 | Haydn (Joseph) | Important manuscript of the Piano Sonata no. 49 in E flat major | 1791 |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 176 | Haydn (Joseph) | La canterina | Pressburg | 1767 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 862.00 |
| 177 | Haydn (Joseph) | Messe ["Missa in Tempore belli", Hob. xxn/9] | GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 805.00 | ||
| 178 | Haydn (Joseph) | Sei trio per viola | Venice | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 713.00 | |
| 179 | Haydn (Joseph) | Die Schopfung | Vienna | 1799 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 414.00 |
| 180 | Haydn (Joseph) | Die Schoepfung | Vienna | 1800 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,092.00 |
| 181 | Haydn (Joseph) | Manuscript of the Psalm setting "How oft instinct with warmth divine" | London | 1794 |
GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 10,925.00 |
| 182 | Haydn (Joseph) | Fine autograph letter signed ("Joseph Haydn [paraph]") | 3 February 1784 |
USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 183 | Haydn (Joseph) | Six Quatuors pour deux violons alto et basse | Vienna | 1787 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 |
| 184 | Haydn (Joseph) | III Quatuors pour deux violins | [c.1790] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 414.00 | |
| 185 | Haydn (Joseph) | Deux quatuors pour Deux Violons | Vienna | [1802] |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 575.00 |
| 186 | Haydn (Joseph) | Trois quatuors pour deux Violons | [1799] |
GBP 450.00 - 550.00 | 460.00 | |
| 187 | Haydn (Joseph) | Tre sonate per II Ciavicembalo o Pianoforte con un Violino e Violoncello...Opera [75] | Vienna | [1797] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 782.00 |
| 188 | Haydn (Joseph) | Collection complette des quatuors | Paris | [1802] |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 |
| 189 | Haydn (Joseph) | Messe ["Heiligmesse", Hob. xxii/10] | GBP 500.00 - 550.00 | 529.00 | ||
| 190 | Haydn (Joseph) | Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte | [1784] |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 690.00 | |
| 191 | Herbert (Victor) | Autograph manuscript of the song "The Century Girl" | [New York] | 1916 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 517.00 |
| 192 | Hummel (Johann Nepomuk) | Collection of first and early editions of piano and chamber music | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 193 | Italian cantatas | c. 1710-1720 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,990.00 | ||
| 194 | Italian opera | GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 862.00 | |||
| 195 | Joachim (Joseph) | Early carte-de-visite photograph signed ("Joseph Joachim") | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 196 | Keyboard | GBP 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,530.00 | |||
| 197 | Khachaturian (Aram) | Autograph manuscript of "Toccata" | 1964 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 920.00 | |
| 198 | Kondrashin (kirill, Soviet conductor, 1914-1981) | Series of seven good autograph letters signed ("KKondrashin") | Chkalov (Orenburg) and Moscow | 1942-1943 |
USD 450.00 - 550.00 | Not Sold |
| 199 | Lambert (Constant) | Collection of nine autograph letters and eight limericks | London | c. 1950-1951 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 200 | Lawes (William) | Seventeenth-century German manuscript of ten works for viola da gamba ascribed to Lawes and others | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,185.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
