[TANGIER.] 

A Description of Tangier, the Country and...

London, for Samuel Speed, 1664. 

Scarce first edition of this entertaining...

£2750

HATHORN, James George.

A hand-book of Darjeeling; with brief notes...

Calcutta, R.C. Lepage & Co., 1863.

Scarce first edition of this guide to Darjeeling...

£2750

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.

Autograph letter, signed ‘Henry W. Longfellow’,...

Ouchy, 16 September 1868.

Addressed to ‘Lady Emily’, Longfellow...

£450

POUND, Ezra.

Quia Pauper amavi.

London, The Egoist Ltd, [1919].

First edition, one of 500 ordinary copies...

£1750

BLANKENBURG, Quirinus Gerbrandszoon van.

Elementa musica of niew licht tot het welverstaan...

The Hague, Laurens Berkoske, 1739.

First edition, very scarce.

£1500

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