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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
28 May 2015 • London
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297 lots
  • Autograph letter signed (“Felix MendelssohnBartholdy”), to Herr Verkenius in Cologne
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed (“Pietro Metastasio”), to Count Fattiboni, about writing librettos, and Fattiboni’s libretto “Mosè in Egitto”
    Estimate: 1,500 – 1,800 GBP
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  • Sei Quartetti per due violini, viola, e violoncello ... Opera X. [complete parts of the string quartets K.387, 421, 428, 458, 464, 465], Vienna, Artaria, 1785,
    Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP
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  • Contemporary hand-coloured etching of Mozart and his family, after the celebrated watercolour by Carmontelle
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Lock of the composer's fair hair, contained in a nineteenth-century gilt locket, with a nineteenth-century manuscript note of provenance
    Estimate: 10,000 – 12,000 GBP
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  • Fine autograph manuscript of Mozart’s transcription of the “Stabat Mater” by Marchese Eugenio Ligniville, [K.Anh.238 (Anh. A 17)], [c.1773]
    Estimate: 150,000 – 200,000 GBP
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  • Autograph manuscript of part of the Serenade in D major for orchestra ('Antretter'), K.185 (167a), comprising the final two pages of the fifth movement, including the conclusion marked by Mozart "Coda"
    Estimate: 100,000 – 150,000 GBP
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  • Three first editions, including the Piano Sonata in F major K.533, with the Rondo K.494, 1788
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Concerto pour le clavecin, ou piano-forte avec accompagnment de plusieurs instruments, Oeuvre 21me [complete parts of the Piano Concerto in B flat, K.456], Offenbach, André, [1792]
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • Nineteenth-century volume, containing editions of Mozart's vocal music and a manuscript of his Offertorium “Inter natos mulierum” K.72
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • The autograph manuscript of the opéra-bouffe L'île de Tulipatan
    Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Décaméron dramatique. Album du théâtre français. Quatrains de M.M. Amédée Achard [...Dumas, Gautier, de Musset] ...portraits de Rauheim, Paris: Heugel, [c.1855]
    Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED