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OVID’S ART OF LOVE, SIGNED AND ILLUSTRATED BY ARISTIDE MAILLOL
OVID. L’Art de Aimer. Lausanne, 1935. Signed limited edition of this French prose translation of Ovid’s love poetry, illustrated with 15 original in-text woodcuts and 12 full-page original lithographs—six printed in sanguine—by renowned artist and sculptor Aristide Maillol. This copy number 145 of only 225 copies signed in pencil by Maillol on the limitation page (from a total edition of 275). $7500.
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“THUNDEROUSLY ACCLAIMED”
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Battle Symphony. Wien, 1816. First edition of the full score of Beethoven’s “Battle Symphony,” commemorating a victory of Wellington over Napoleon. $7000.
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WITH HANDPAINTED DUST JACKET AND GIFT INSCRIPTION BY BLOOMSBURY ARTIST DUNCAN GRANT
WADDELL, Helen, translator. Mediaeval Latin Lyrics. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1952. Custom-covered volume of Latin lyrics, with a splendid original hand-painted dust jacket in ink and watercolors by Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant, depicting a monk and a nun dancing on one cover and a chalice surrounded by grapes on the other, with his gift inscription: “Angus with love from Duncan, Christmas 1954.” $6800.
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“VERY BEAUTIFUL, IMAGINATIVE AND FULL OF STRONG SITUATIONS”
VERDI, Giuseppe. Il Trovatore. Milan, 1853. First authorized edition (and, according to Fuld, first edition), piano-vocal score, fully engraved. $6800.
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RÊVERIE, INSCRIBED BY DEBUSSY TO THE ARRANGER
DEBUSSY, Claude. Reverie. Paris, 1914. Early edition of the piano-violin score, inscribed by Debussy on the front cover to the arranger Ferdinando Ronchini, “pour F. Ronchini, avec mon sincere compliment. Claude Debussy. Juillet-1914.” $6200.
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“THE LAST ROMAN HISTORIAN OF ANY IMPORTANCE”
HOLLAND, Philemon, translator. The Roman Historie. London, 1609. First English translation, by Philemon Holland, of this important source for the lives of the later Roman emperors. $6000.
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BEETHOVEN’S SIX VARIATIONS POUR LE PIANOFORTE, 1803 FIRST EDITION
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. VI Variations pour le pianoforte, Op. 34. Leipzig, 1803. First edition, fully engraved. $6000.
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SIGNED AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION
FROM PROKOFIEV’S STRING QUARTET NO. 1
PROKOFIEV, Serge. Musical Quotation Signed & Photograph. No place, no date. Signed autograph musical quotation from Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 1, attractively mounted and framed with a photographic portrait of the composer. $6000.
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“IT WAS MUSIC LIKE NO OTHER EVER HEARD BEFORE”
SCHUBERT, Franz. Symphony in B Flat ('Unfinished'). Wien, 1867. First edition, fully engraved, of the full score to Schubert’s unfinished masterpiece. $6000.
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“THE HIGHEST STEP IN ARISTOTLE’S SYSTEM”
(ARISTOTLE) TAYLOR, Thomas. Metaphysics of Aristotle, Translated from the Greek. London, 1801. First edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, translated from the Greek by British classical scholar Taylor, a handsome wide-margined copy, beautifully bound. $6000.
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