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Music, Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts And Continental Books
04 December 2018 • London
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318 lots
  • Autograph manuscript of part of the String Quartet in C minor, comprising the two hitherto-unknown opening movements, unsigned but dated above the music ("1888-"), with other sketches
    Estimate: 20,000 – 25,000 GBP
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  • Corrected manuscript with autograph additions of the "Quartet for Strings" [DCW 49], the complete original version in three movements, signed, 1916
    Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP
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  • Autograph working manuscript of the unknown song "Wohl waren es Tage der Sonne", signed ("Fritz Delius 1890")
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
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  • Autograph musical album-leaf, signed and inscribed to Peter Lichtenthal (“Donizetti a Lichtenthal”)
    Estimate: 800 – 1,000 GBP
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  • Autograph letter signed ("il vostro Donizetti"), about his opera "L'elisir d'amore", 22 March 1839
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation signed ("G.Donizetti") from his opera "L'elisir d'Amore"
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Autograph letter to the librettist Felice Romani, signed (“G. Donizetti”), 8 November 1831
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Autograph letter signed (“G. Donizetti”), about the singers in "Lucrezia Borgia", 11 September 1833
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Good autograph letter signed ("Donizetti") to the publisher Giovanni Ricordi, 17 June 1841
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Cabinet-style photograph signed on the image and mount ("Antonin Dvorák"), in pencil
    Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP
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  • Postcard photograph signed on the image ("Edward Elgar")
    Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED