Lot 36
  • 36

Handel, George Frideric.

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

Description

  • The Most Celebrated Songs in the Oratorio call'd Queen Esther, London: Walsh, [1732]
  • paper
first edition, 30 pages, folio (c.32 x 20.5cms), no publisher's number on title, blank after p.17, table of songs, modern half morocco, [Smith no.1]--Joseph and his Brethren, Walsh, [1744]first edition, 84 pages, 4to, original pagination, p.33 blank, contemporary additions to the figured bass, modern boards, [Smith no.1]--Saul An Oratorio, [full score],  London: W. Randall, [1773], 250 & 15 pages, folio, later half calf, lacking portrait, [Smith no.6]--Acis and Galatea A Mask, W. Randall, [1769], folio, engraved portrait by Houbraken, modern boards, ownership inscriptions (1799 and 1808), staining throughout, [Smith no.9], 4 volumes in all

Condition

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