Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts

184. Chopin, Frédéric

Fine long autograph letter by Pauline Viardot, to George Sand, about her portrait of Chopin, and her opera singing, signed with initials

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

185. A collection of over thirty drawings and caricatures by Benedikt Fred Dolbin & Claude Remusat

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

186. Good collection of thirty-five portraits of Milhaud, Pierné, Auric, Honegger, Lehár etc. by Bils, Ochsé and Jacques Baugnies

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

187. Descartes, René

Collection of books about music

Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

188. German, Sir Edward

Collection of autograph manuscripts, autograph instrumental parts and autograph fragments and sketches, including for his first operetta (The Two Poets), incidental music (Richard III) and other instrumental and vocal works, differing substantially from the published versions, or unpublished

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

189. Grieg, Edvard

Two cabinet-size photographs signed ("EdvardGrieg"), one also inscribed ("Benjamin...EdvardGrieg"), and one cabinet-size photograph of Nina Grieg signed and inscribed ("...Frau Tiefenthal in Freundschaft und Dankbarkeit von Nina Grieg")

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

190. Handel, George Frideric

Two eighteenth-century scribal manuscripts

Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

192. Lehár, Franz

Three autograph manuscripts of parts of the operetta Der Mann mit den drei Frauen

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

193. Substantial collection of over 50 volumes of eighteenth-century French opera librettos, including:

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

194. Messiaen, Olivier

Over fifty first and early editions by Messiaen, two signed the composer, and two by Dutilleux, including

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

195. Lully, Jean-Baptiste

Les plaisirs de l’Isle enchantée, ou les festes, et divertissements du Roy à Versailles [...Le Ballet de la Princesse d'Elide], Paris: imprimerie royale, 1673

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

196. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Good collection of first and early editions of the operas, including full scores

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED