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Lot 68
  • 68

Haydn, Joseph.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • First edition of the "Nelson" Mass
Messe à 4 Voix avec accompagnement de 2 Violins, Viola et Basse, une Flûte, 2 Hautbois, 2 Bassons, 2 Cors, 3 Trompettes, Timbales et Orgue...No. III ["Nelson" Mass] [Hob.XXII/11], Leipzig: Au Magasin de Musique de Breitkopf et Härtel, [1803], first edition, 116 pages, oblong 4to (25.5 x 35cm), late nineteenth-century quarter cloth, light browning, trimmed, slightly affecting the pagination in a few places, and the music text on pages 6 and 53, without original wrappers, [Hoboken 1440] 

Condition

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