L. v. Beethoven. Collection of early editions of works for piano and violoncello, 1803-c.1823

Ludwig van Beethoven

Collection of printed editions of works for violoncello and piano

comprising:

Deux Grandes Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Piano Forte avec un Violon Obligé ou Violoncelle...Oeuv. 5 [parts], Leipzig: au Bureau de Musique de C.F. Peters, [1814 or later], 43 (piano), 9 (violin), 9 (violoncello) pages, plate number 225, violin and violoncello parts loose

Grande Sonate pour Pianoforté et Violoncelle...Oeuv. 69, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [early 1810?], 27 (piano), 7 (violoncello) pages, plate number 1328, ownership inscription to violoncello part ("...Lichtenstein"), creasing to title

Deux Sonates pour le Pianoforte et Violon...Op.102. Liv: I [...Liv: II [the second 'I' supplied in manuscript]], Bonn and Cologne, Simrock, [c.1823], 19, 5, 23, 5 pages, plate numbers 1337 and 1338, new titles laid down on p.3

XII. Variations pour le Forte-Piano, ou Clavecin avec un Violon obligé /: ou Violoncelle :/...Sur un Theme de Händel [WoO 45], Leipzig: Hoffmeister et Kühnel (Bureau de Musique), [1803], 11, 2 pages, plate number 226, lacking violin part

5 works in one volume, oblong 4to and 4to, engraved music, manuscript label in the hand of Ernst Rudorff to upper cover ("Beethoven Sonaten für Pianoforte und Violoncello...Alles aus dem Besitz meiner Eltern..."), some pencil fingerings, together with two violoncello parts for op.102 from Ludwig van Beethovens Werke, and later violoncello and violin parts for WoO 45, nineteenth century half cloth, repairs to a few leaves, bound parts trimmed by the binder 

Formerly in the collection of the Berlin pianist and composer Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).