Lot 213
  • 213

Schumann, Robert

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Schumann, Robert
  • Good collection of first and early editions, including the symphonies and choral works
  • paper
Symphonie (No.1 B dur), Op.38, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [1853], first edition, publishers' green wrappers, cloth spine, modern cloth box, staining to wrappers--Zweite Sinfonie, Op.61, Leipzig: Whistling, 1861, modern quarter calf gilt--Symphonie No.IV D moll, Breitkopf & Härtel, [c.1860], engraved music, plate no.8795, publishers' green wrappers, new spine, modern cloth box, foxing on title--Paradies und Peri, Op.50 [vocal score], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1844], first edition, green half Morocco gilt, [McCorkle, p.223]--Vom Pagen und der Königstochter, Op.140 [full score], Winterthur: J. Rieter-Biedermann, [1857], [Hofmann, p.307]--Vom Pagen und der Königstochter [vocal score], Rieter-Biedermann, [1857], modern quarter calf, bound with original wrappers--Neujahrslied, Op.144, Rieter Biedermann, [after 1862], original wrappers laid down, upper cover detached--Manfred, Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abteilungen, Op.115, [vocal score], Breitkopf & Härtel, C19 cloth boards, rebacked and recornered--Der Rose Pilgerfahrt [vocal score], Op. 112, Leipzig: Fr. Kistner, modern binding retaining original upper wrapper--Scenen aus Göthe's Faust, WoO 3, Leipzig: C.F. Peters, modern quarter calf;  together with: Complete Symphonies of Schumann [full score], Leipzig: C. F. Peters--Die Nibelungen by Heinrich Dorn [vocal score], Berlin: Ed. Bote & G. Bock (13 volumes in all)


 

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