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Rare books, autographs, manuscripts, drawings. The original manuscript of the Star-Spangled Banner, autograph letters & manuscripts by Thomas Jefferson... a superb letter by Edgar Allan Poe about his family... & other valuable properties. To be sold by order of the various owners and estates on January 4th and 5th.

Published

New York, 1934.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

This evening, Saturday, January 22, 1825. His Majesty's servants will, (for the third time) perform a new grand opera, called The fall of Algiers ... to conclude with, (for the 23rd time) an entirely new splendid comic pantomime, called Harlequin & the talking bird, the singing trees & golden waters.

Accession number

PMC 1120

Published

[London] : J. Tabby, printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1825.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

Alexander's feast, or, The power of musick : an ode / wrote in honour of St. Cecilia by Mr. Dryden ; set to musik by Mr. Handel ; with the recitativo's, songs, symphonys and chorus's for voices & instruments ; together with the cantata, duet, and songs, as perform'd at the Theatre Royal, in Covent Garden.

Uniform title

Alexander's feast

Accession number

PMC 125

Published

London : Publish'd by the author : Printed for & sold by I. Walsh ..., [1738?]

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

Autograph letters signed (17) and autograph postcards signed (6), one letter partly in the hand of Anna Malipiero, one card also signed by Anna Malipiero, Alfredo Casella, Manuel de Falla, and Lionel Tertis, dated : Venice, Asolo, Rome, Milan, Paris, Naples, [and other places], 1919-1926, to Louise Alvar, 1919-1926.

1919-1926.

Accession number

Harding M39

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Music Manuscript

Letter

Autograph manuscript signed, dated of a poem and sentiment addressed to [Henriette Sontag]. The poem begins: "O singe fort! Mir ist zu Muthe." The sentiment reads: "So war es mir, als ich Deine lieben Töne wieder hörte, Deine liebliche Gestalt wiedersah--unverändert--wie meine Freundschaft" : Paris, 4 January 1851, 1851 Jan. 4.

1851 Jan. 4.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

This present evening, Wednesday, January 28, 1835, will be performed Weber's grand romantic legendary opera, in three acts, called Der Freischutz ... After which will be performed, first time this season, the comic interlude called Billy Taylor ... The whole to conclude with the melo-dramatic romance called The vampire.

Accession number

PMC 1220.13

Published

[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1835].

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

This evening, Thursday, Feb. 12, 1835, will be performed the new grand historical opera, in 3 acts, called Gustavus of Sweden, or The masked ball ... After which will be performed the new interlude called Every body's husband ... The whole to conclude with the comic operetta called The haunted chamber.

Accession number

PMC 1220.14

Published

[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1835].

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

This present evening, Saturday, April 4, 1835, will be revived the splendid historical operatic spectacle of Gustavus of Sweden ... After which, for the first time this season, the favourite interlude of Matrimony ... The whole to conclude with, for the third time this season, the popular farce of The review.

Accession number

PMC 1220.21

Published

[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1835].

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

This present evening, Wednesday, April 8, 1835, will be performed Weber's grand romantic legendary opera called Der Freischutz ... After which will be performed the favourite interlude, in one act, called A day after the wedding ... The whole to conclude with the grand melo-dramatic opera, in three acts, called 'Masaniello.

Accession number

PMC 1220.23

Published

[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1835].

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

"We are two roving minstrels" : a duet, sung with the greatest applause by Master Smith & Master Parry, at the Eisteddvod or meeting of Welsh bards & minstrels held on the 22nd of May 1823, also by Miss Williams & Master Longhurst / composed & respectfully inscribed to the Right Honorable Lady Dynevor, by John Parry.

Uniform title

We are two roving minstrels

Accession number

PMC 1224

Published

London : Published by Goulding & D'Almaine, 20, Soho Square, & to be had of all music sellers in the United Kingdom., [1823?]

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material