Lot 180
  • 180

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Estimate
2,000 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Sixième Symphonie Pastorale en fa majeur...Oeuvre 68. Partition, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [May 1826]
  • paper
first edition of the full score of the "Pastoral Symphony", [2] & 188 pages, 8vo (26.3 x 16.7cm), lithographed title, engraved music, plate no.4311, nineteenth-century quarter calf, grey printed front wrapper (cut down and laid to cover), lettered; "[6-]ième Sinfonie de L.v. Beethoven Partition", bookseller's stamps to title and wrapper, foxing

Literature

Kinsky/Halm, p.163; Hoboken 304; Fuld, p.560

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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