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J.S. Bach. Collection of first and early editions, 1801-1820

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November 30, 02:02 PM GMT

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Bach, Johann Sebastian


Collection of first and early editions


Toccata Per Clavicembalo...N.o I [BWV 913] [RISM B 517], Vienna:Hoffmeister and Leipzig: Bureau de Musique, [1801], FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLY VERSION, 11 pages, oblong 4to (c.25 x 35.5cm), engraved throughout, plate number 52, pencil annotations, uncut, publisher's printed blue wrappers, spotting to margins, upper and lower wrappers affixed to a spine made from a separate fragment of the upper wrapper


Die Kunst der Fuge [BWV 1080] [RISM B 523], Zürich: Hans Georg Nägeli,[1802], 2 leaves, 183 pages, oblong 4to (24.3 x 23.6cm), engraved music, series title ("Musikalische Kunstwerke im Strengen Style von J.S. Bach u. andern Meistern"), manuscript label to upper cover with ownership signature ("Landsberg"), library stamp to the manuscript label and to series title ("Bibliotheca Landsbergiana"), contemporary half calf, pp.135-138 supplied in manuscript, browning, spine defective, upper cover loose 


Chromatische Fantasie für das Pianoforte [BWV 903] [RISM B 516], Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [c.1817], 15 pages, oblong folio (22.6 x 31.3cm), plate numbers 1512 and 74, publisher's stamp to title, modern cloth-backed boards, gatherings strengthened, repairs to edges, tear along inner side of plate on pp.5/6, title on a guard, browning to title


Exercices pour le Clavecin par J. S. Bach. Oeuv. I[II]...Partie [erasure] [BWV 552 and 669-689], Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [c.1817], 63 pages, oblong 4to (23.6 x 32.6cm), engraved throughout, plate number 307, manuscript label to upper cover ("Bach, Seb. Exercices p. le Piano..."), gilt number to spine ("7"), contemporary half calf, browning and spotting, splitting at joints


Le clavecin bien tempéré ou Préludes et fugues dans tous les tons et demitons...Partie I [...II [= 'I' altered in manuscript to 'II']] [BWV 846-893] [RISM B 502], Leipzig: au Bureau de Musique de C.F. Peters, [c.1818], 87 and 99 pages, oblong 4to (24.3 x 31.4cm), engraved throughout, plate numbers 53 and 91, publisher's stamp to titles, modern leather-backed boards, browning to edges, some damp-staining; with another copy of 'Parthie II', nineteenth-century black moiré silk boards


Exercices Pour le Clavecin par J. S. Bach. Oeuv. II...Partie I [BWV 988], Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [1820], 47 pages, oblong 4to (22.6 x 30.5cm), engraved throughout, plate number 1621, bookseller's printed label ("à Rotterdam chez J.H. Paling") over imprint, nineteenth-century marbled wrappers


LITERATURE

Hoboken, i 104 (BWV 903), 116 (BWV 988), 49 (BWV 552 etc.)