Catalogue of music, printed books, theatrical posters, musical manuscripts, Continental autograph letters and historical documents
Subtitle: including Arne's Artaxerxes, (1762), Bickham's The musical entertainer, (1737-38), Keller's A compleat method of attaining to play a thorow bass ..., (1707), and complete editions of Lully, Mozart and Palestrina; autograph musical manuscripts of Bartok, Alban Berg, Brahams, Britten, Chopin, Debussy, Kodaly, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Satie and Sullivan; autograph letters Brahms, Cherubini, Chopin, Elgar, Grieg, Holst, Liszt, Rossini, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Verdi and Webern; an autograph "conversation leaf" of Beethoven; books, drawings, prints and letters, relating to the theatre and ballet, including George Coleman's copy of Gay's Polly, 1729, interleaved and annotated for the first production in 1777; a collection of 18th century theatrical maquettes; an extensive collection of material relating to Ellen Terry; a very large collection of letters of theatrical interest, and an important collection of playbills of the 18th and 19th centuries; a papal brief perhaps in the hand of Arrighi; an extensive series of letters of the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna; important manuscripts of the Zionist leader, Dr. Max Nordau (1849-1923); letters of Berthier, Cocteau, Dumas, Victor Hugo, Maeterlinck, Mazarin and Ludovico Sforza. Which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA ... ; days of sale: Monday, 8th May, 1972, lots 1-306; Tuesday, 9th May, 1972, lots 307-584.222
Contributors: Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Gilbert and Sullivan (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Sotheby & Co.
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Manuscripts; Catalogs; Codicology; Bibliography; Library; Music; Auction catalogs; Oxford University Press
Notes: 584 lots.

Sale code: HARMONY.

Merimée, Monet, Montherlant, Napoleon, de Staël, Talleyrand and Voltaire; Einstein, Freud and Humboldt; Bodoni, Canova, Castiglione, d'Annunzio, Leopardi, Manzoni and Ludovico Sforza."

With addendum for Lots 520-529.

Place of sale: London.