Lot 199
  • 199

Beethoven, Ludwig van

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

Description

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Grande Sonate pour le Pianoforte composée et dédiée a Monsieur le Comte de Waldstein...Op. 53, Vienna: Bureau des arts et d'industrie, [c.1806-1810], bound with piano works by Dussek, Pollini and Vanhal
  • paper
29 pages, engraved throughout, plate number 449, watermark of crowned star within a shield, cracks to plates on pp.15/16 & 27, price erased on title, bound with--DUSSEK, JAN LADISLAV. Grande Sonate...dediée à son Ami Muzio Clementi, op.44, 25 pages, Vienna: Cappi [RISM D 4432])--contemporary manuscripts of keyboard variations by Francesco Pollini and Vanhal

4 items in one volume, oblong 4to (c.24 x 33.4cm), early nineteenth-century calf-backed patterned paper boards printed in red & blue, red-gilt label and titles to spine, the manuscripts occasionally trimmed by the binder, some staining and foxing

Literature

Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (2014), p.290; cf. Hoboken no.253

Condition

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

An attractive volume, containing the second issue of the famous "Waldstein" Sonata, with a similar watermark to that described by Hoboken for the first issue.