CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.

Manuscript score ‘VI Duetti Madrigaleschi’.

[Italian, late eighteenth century?]

A collection of six madrigals for two voices,...

£850

FABRIZI, Pietro.

Regole generali di canto fermo raccolte...

Rome, Mascardi, 1708.

‘Fourth’ edition of a small practical...

£500

[FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.]

Psalms, Hymns & Anthems used in the Chapel...

[London], 1774 [but c. 1780?]

The Foundling Hospital was established...

£750

FREZZA DALLE GROTTE, Gioseppe.

Il Cantore ecclesiastico breve, facile,...

Padua, Stamperia del Seminario (Giovanni...

First edition of an uncommon plainchant...

£1250

GREENE, Maurice.

Forty select Anthems in Score composed...

London. J. Walsh, 1743.

First edition. Greene was organist and...

£850

MALCOLM, Alexander.

A Treatise of Musick, speculative, practical...

London, J. Osborn and T. Longman, F. Fayram,...

First London edition of the first history...

£1100

[ADOLPHUS, Prince, later Duke of Cambridge.]

Manuscript collection of fifty-four songs...

[Hanover?, 1796.]

The seventh son of George III and Queen...

£2850

[MENESTRIER, Claude François.]

Des representations en musique anciennes...

Paris, René Guignard, 1681.

First edition. A Jesuit professor at Lyons...

£600

MOZART, et al.

A volume of twelve piano duets adapted...

London, mostly Birchall & Co., 1810s–1820s.

A good collection of late Georgian piano...

£350

RECUEIL DE QUADRILLES

pour le Piano.

[France, 1840s?]

A delightful album, evidently produced...

£850

PLAYFORD, John.

Psalms & Hymns in solemn Musick of foure...

London, Printed by W. Godbid for J. Playford,...

First edition of the first harmonised Psalter...

£1850

[PRELLEUR, Peter.]

The Compleat Tutor for the Harpsichord...

London, Peter Thompson, musical instrument...

First edition thus?, an abridgment of part...

£1250

RINUCCINI, Ottavio.

La Dafne, nuovamente stampata in occasione...

Florence, Borgognissanti, 1810.

Scarce edition of Rinuccini’s Dafne,...

£650

[SWEDENBORG, Emanuel.] 

De nova Hierosolyma et ejus Doctrina Coelesti:...

London, [John Lewis,] 1758. 

First edition of Swedenborg’s ‘New...

£975

BEATTIE, James.

Original Poems and Translations.

London: Printed [by F. Douglas, Aberdeen?];...

First edition of Beattie’s first collection....

£450

TANS’UR, William.

The Royal Psalmodist compleat: or, the...

[St Neots?,] Printed by the Author, 1750.

Unrecorded edition of Tans’ur’s Royal...

£850

FORD, Simon.

The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing...

London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.

First edition, the last published work...

£275

RENOWNED HISTORY (The)

of Primrose Prettyface, who by her Sweetness...

London, Printed & sold by J. Marshall...

One of three undated editions, probably...

£1000

NAUNTON, Sir Robert.

Memoirs … with some of his posthumous...

London: Printed and sold by G. Smeeton...

First edition, a large paper copy, imposed...

£450

PARNASSIUM (The)

: or Beauties of English Poetry. Selected...

London: Printed for W. Lane … [after 1776.]

A very scarce reissue by the enterprising...

£325