L. VAN BEETHOVEN, COLLECTION OF FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS OF THE PIANO SONATAS AND BAGATELLES, C.1820-1840

Grosse Sonate für das Hammer-Klavier, Op.106, with the 'Catalogue des Oeuvres', 59 pages, priced at "4f.C.M.", Simrock's label on title, engraved throughout, Vienna: Artaria, [c.1820], [Hoboken, ii 436; Kinsky (2014), p.667 (2b)]--Six Bagatelles Op.126, FIRST EDITION, 19 pages, lithographed title with lyre-vignette, priced ("Pr: 1 Fl 24 kr:"), 2 blank pages following title, engraved music, plate no. 2281, Mainz: Schott, [1825] [Hoboken, ii 506; Kinsky p.805]--the other late sonatas from Haslinger's complete edition: Opp.101, 109, 110 & 111, engraved, Vienna: Haslinger, [c.1833-1835], and: Opp.2, 7, 10, 13, 14, 22, 26, 27, 28, 31, 49, 53, 54, 57, 77 (Fantaisie), 78, 79, 81 & 90, lithographed, Offenbach: André, [c.1840] 4 volumes, 4to, coloured titles to the André & Haslinger editions, contemporary black roan-backed boards, nineteenth-century ownership inscriptions of Auguste Ergmann, some staining and foxing, rather worn, spine on first volume detaching

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ALL ISSUES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GREAT "HAMMERKLAVIER" SONATA ARE RARE AT AUCTION. Artaria originally issued it in Vienna without the contemporary four-page catalogue; this lists Beethoven's compositions up to Op.106 and includes Artaria's address which was omitted after 1820.