Musik

Das Klavier Und Seine Meister

Oscar Bie · 1898 · Rooke Books

£27.99 (€33.55 | $36.98 | ¥5,903)

Muchen, F. Bruckmann, 1898. Cloth. A wonderful German work looking into prolific and popular pianists. In the original German.A fascinating study into prolific pianists and their work.With numerous illustrations, portraits and folding facsimiles of the original sheet music by ...

The Ceremonial Noted

St. Mary's Convent [Winfred Douglas] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Peekskill, New York, St. Mary's Convent, 1923. Cloth. A very scarce book of plainsong compiled by the Anglican Saint Mary's Convent for their fellow sisters in branches across the United States. A very scarce music book, The Ceremonial Noted: Occasional Offices of Th...

Petite Historie Des Cafãƒâ©S Concerts Parisiens

Romi · 1950 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Paris, Jean Chitry, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a delightful book on the history of Parisian café concerts, containing charming illustrations throughout. The first edition of Petite Historie des Cafés Concerts Parisiens, written by Romi, and with a prefa...

An Essay on the Construction of Flutes, Giving a History and Description of the Most Recent Improvements, with an Explanation of the Principles of Acoustics Applicable to the Manufacture of Wind Instruments

Theobald Bohm · 1882 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Rudall, Carte and Co, 1882. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of Theobald Bohm's treatise on the construction of flutes. The scarce first edition. Originally written in 1847. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This essay offers a definiti...

The Gaiety Programme: Rose of Auvergne, "Uncle" & Robbing Roy

Offenbach; Henry J. Byron; F. C. Burnand · 1879 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1879. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce opera programme for a night at the Gaiety Theatre in London, presenting three shows commencing on Monday December 15th, 1879. A very scarce programme for a theatre performance in 1897. Presenting a s...

The Songs of Scotland Adapted to Their Appropriate Melodies Arranged with Planoforte Accompaniments by G.F. Graham, T.M. Mundie, J.T. Surenne, H.E. Dibden, Finlay Dun &C.

George Farquhar Graham · 1860 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Glasgow, Wood and Co, 1860. Leather. A charming work on traditional Scottish songs adapted for the pianoforte. Dated c.1860 from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries. Three volumes bound in one. Graham Farquhar Graham was a Scottish musicologist. The Songs of Scot...

Reminiscences of Henry Coward

Henry Coward · 1919 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,425)

London, J. Curwen & Sons, 1919. Cloth. Henry Coward offers a narrative of his life in this scarce autobiography. Found in the unclipped dust wrapper, with six illustrations. A second edition of this scarce autobiography for the British conductor and composer. Found in the uncl...

La Traviata and IL Trovatore Opera

Giuseppe Verdi · 1813 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.80 | ¥72,762)

Paris and Belgium, Léon Escudier, c1850. Leather. A wonderful binding of sheet music of two of Verdi's most renowned operas, arranged for piano. This is a French edition of this piano arrangement of Verdi's operas 'La Traviata' and 'Il Trovatore&apos....

Songs & Lyrics from the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

E. H. Fellowes (Ed) · 1928 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. Cloth. A collection of songs and lyrics taken from the play of the two Renaissance playwrights Beaumont and Fletcher. Limited edition. Number 292 of 345. Edited and compiled by E. H. Fellowes. Fellowes was a music scholar who ...

Songs and Duets

Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, Various, c1850. Leather. A charming collection of songs and duets, with an informative preface containing 'Instructions in the Art of Singing' with various exercises and 'easy solfeggio' for vocalisation. A very scarce copy. Containing a variety of ...

Mendelssohn. Songs without Words (Lieder Ohne Worte)

Ch. Stephano; Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London, Wickins & Co, c1900. Cloth. A collection of piano works from Mendelssohn. With a Hawkes and son pamphlet of sheet music for Love's Awakening by Percy E. Fletcher. With Hawkes and son pamphlet of sheet music for Falling Leaf, by J. M. Diack. Dated from Worldcat. In...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Arthur Bliss · 1939 · Rooke Books

£99.00 (€118.67 | $130.79 | ¥20,879)

London, Novello and Company, Limited , 1939. First edition. Paperback. The sheet music for Arthur Bliss' Concerto performed at the 1939 New York World's Fair, signed by British pianist Solomon Cutner. Signed by the Concerto's pianist Solomon Cutner (better known...

The Elements of Musick Display&Apos;D

William Tans'ur · 1772 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,267)

London, Stanley Crowder, 1772. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce treatise on music by William Tans'ur, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The first edition of this scarce work.A brilliant exploration of music and its history, presenting the r...

National Temperance Choral Union: Music and Words to Be Sung at the First Concert by Juvenile Singers

National Temperance Choral Union · 1899 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, National Temperance Choral Union, 1899 . Paperback. A very scarce work presenting the music and words sung by the juvenile singers at the National Temperance Fete at Crystal Palace in July 1899. A very scarce work.The National Temperance Choral Union was a group that p...

Sheet Music from Hammerstein Musical Films

Oscar Hammerstein; Jerome Kern; P. G. Wodehouse · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Chappell & Co. Ltd; Francis Day & Hunter LTD, 1936-57. Paperback. A set of five scarce pieces of sheet music for various musical films, all in their original colourful wraps. A unique set of five volumes of sheet music for various songs from musical films, all of which...

Gaudeamus: A Selection of Songs for Colleges and Schools

John Farmer [ed.] · 1915 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1915. Leather. A popular collection of songs intended to be sung at schools and colleges, bound in full calf as a gift, with a charming contemporary ink inscription. "Thirtieth thousand" edition of this work. A selection of song for colleg...

The Musical Bijou, an Album of Music and Poetry for 1848

F. H. Burney · 1848 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, D'Almaine and Co. 1848 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this album of music and poetry for the year 1848 in quarter calf binding with colour chromolithographs. First edition of The Musical Bijou, An Album of Music and Poetry for 1848 edit...

The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I, the Birth of Broadcasting; Volume II, the Golden Age of Wireless; Volume IV, Sound and Vision

Asa Briggs · 1961 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

London, Oxford University Press, 1961-1979. Cloth. The first editions of three comprehensive volumes within the seminal series on the BBC and British broadcasting, written by a renowned historian of Modern Britain. The first editions of volumes I, II and IV within The History ...

Angling Songs

Thomas Tod Stoddart; Anna M. Stoddart · 1889 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this charming book on songs for fishing, written by Scottish angler and poet Thomas Tod Stoddart. The first edition.In the publisher's original blue cloth binding....

Allgemeines Deutsches Kommersbuch. Vorwort: Ed. Heyck.

KOMMERSBÜCHER.- SILCHER, Friedrich u. Friedrich Erk (Hrsg.): · 1914 · Antiquariat Schwarz

€52.00 ($57.31 | £43.38 | ¥9,149)

91.-95.Auflage. Lahr: Schauenburg 1914. kl.8°. X(4),768 S. Original grüner, blind- und schwarz/goldgeprägte Original Leinwand, dreiseitiger Farbschnitt, Ausgabe in (abwaschbarem) grünem Leinen mit 8 "Biernägeln". Einband leicht berieben, vorderer fliegender Vorsatz verso mit ...