Sotheby’s Book Week in June and July brings auctions in Paris, London, and New York, offering rare manuscripts, major literary works and historic materials across eras.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | First edition of the full score of “Così fan tutte”, and one other
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Richard Wagner | Autograph letter signed, to the poet Karl Beck, 22 November 1868
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Christoph Willibald Gluck | Autograph manuscript of part of the celebrated air 'J’ai perdu mon Eurydice' from "Orphée et Eurydice", 1774
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Claude Debussy | Autograph manuscript of the song “Flots, palmes, sables”, signed, 1882
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | Collection of autograph music manuscripts, c.1892-1946
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Antonín Dvořák | Vocal score of the Requiem Mass inscribed by the composer to Karel Bendl
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Giuseppe Verdi. Six autograph letters signed to Antonio Gallo, 1854-1875
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Joseph Haydn | Autograph letter signed to C. G. Breitkopf, 7 September 1795
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Illuminated Antiphonal (Sanctorale), on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Emilia-Romagna?), 1270–1275
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Three editions, including a first edition of “Idomeneo”, 1805 or later
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Illuminated Carta Executoria de hidalguía for Doctor Andrés Zamudio de Alfaro, on vellum, in Latin and Spanish, issued in Granada, February 1572
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Baptism of Christ on a leaf from an Antiphonal, on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, potentially Emilia, Bologna, or Padua), second quarter of the fourteenth century
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Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass, 1861, annotated by William Rosetti, [with:] Put's Golden Songster, San Francisco, [1858]
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Arnold Schoenberg | First edition of "Gurre-Lieder", signed by the composer, 1920
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Composers | Collection of printed first and early editions by Haydn, Stravinsky, and others, mostly nineteenth and twentieth century
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Jules Massenet | Collection of ten autograph manuscripts of songs and operatic numbers, 1865-1912
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Maurice Ravel | Miniature score of “Boléro”, inscribed by Ravel to René Bernier, 1931?
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Igor Stravinsky | Contemporary manuscript copy of his “Piano-Rag-Music”, 1919
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Giuseppe Verdi | Two autograph letters signed to Francesco Florimo, 16 June 1871 and 22 June 1878
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Richard Wagner | Autograph vocal part relating to Wagner's arrangement of Gluck's "Iphigénie en Aulide", 1847
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Illuminated leaf from an Antiphonal with initial D by Berardo da Teramo, on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Abruzzo), c.1330–1340
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Martyrdom of St Mark on a leaf from a Gradual illuminated by a Master of the San Domenico Choirbooks, on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Bologna), 1st half of the fourteenth century
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Hector Berlioz | First edition of the “Grande messe des morts”, signed and inscribed by the composer
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED
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T.S. Eliot | Four Quartets, 1960, number 97 of 290 limited copies, signed by the author, original boards and slipcase
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Jules Massenet | Collection of nine autograph manuscripts of instrumental works, mostly signed, 1880-1894
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