Search Results: Manuscripts from Veery Books

35 pp. small folio, (10.75 x 13.25 in.). Black-line (diazotype) folded leaves bound with cloth tape. Probably dates to the late thirties. Songs in an unknown professional scribal hand. Lyrics and additional verses in typescript, some songs with notes regarding singers and sources. To my knowledge, these songs were never published except in this form.

Washington, D.C.: Self, 1950 30 pp. Wear and scuffing to wraps.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D.C.: Self, 1951 17 pp. Wear and soiling to wraps. Prepared by Edward N. Watters.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1961. 71 pp. 618 items. Illustrated by frontis. (Title Page of P. Cramer, Papillons Exotiques, Amsterdam and utrecht, 1779-1791). Bumping to corners, rubbing, and discoloration near extremities of wraps. Inside clean. Highlights include Costumes (various countries): items 40-48; Ornithology (including Baron Cuvier's copy of Edwards-A Natural History of Uncommon Birds): items 119-134; Sporting: items 177-195; English Literature, Art, Bibliographies, Books about books, Reproductions of Illuminated Mss., Miniatures, Catalogues of Collections, Oriental, Biography, Clement Shorter (items 551-569) privately printed pieces; Ten items printed for private circulation only and in the original wrapper for A. C. Swinburne.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Sotheby's New York, 1999. 392 pp. 462 lots. Light bumping to corners, otherwise fine. Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana (lots 1-162 including a letter to Rhode Island Governor William Greene dated 2 June 1781, signed by George Washington, which sold for $34,500); Modern Illustrated Books and Fine Bindings (lots 163-196 including Longus Daphnis & Chloe. Paris: Teriade, 1961, with 42 colored plates by Marc Chagall, binding by Paul Bonet.); A Selection of Fruit Books from the Library of Robert A. Nitschke (197-206 including a rare example of a ''tree peddler's'' specimen book, typical of those produced in Rochester, New York during the second half of the nineteenth century, which sold for $5,462); Property from the Botanical Library of Earl L. Murphy, M.D. (lots 247-267 including first edition of one of the earlist lithographed botanical books, limited to one hundred and fifty copies, which sold for $17,250.); Property of a Long Island Nurseryman (268-287 including John Parkinson Paradisi… Read More

New York: Christie's, New York, 2005. 311 pp. 482 lots. Many excellent illustrations in color including full page reproductions of both Alexander Wilson's and Audubon's Carolina Parrot or Parakeet. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Sotheby's London, 2005. 184 pp. 187 lots. 130 Illustrations, many of autograph musical manuscripts. Light bumping to corners, otherwise fine. Including mss. and scores by Albinoni, Auber, C.P.E. Bach, J. C. Bach, Barber, Bartok, Beethoven, Belli, Berg, Berlin, Berlioz, Bizet, Boccherini, Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Campra, Caruso, Chopin, Copland, Francois Couperin, Delius, Diaghilev, Donato, Donizetti, Dukas, Dvorak, Dutilleux, Elgar, Gershwin, Gluck, Gounod, Grechaninov, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Joachim, Kirnberger, Liszt, Mahler, Marais, Marenzio, Marcello, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Milhaud, Monteverdi, Moszkowski, Mozart, Offenbach, Paganini, Pergolesi, Prelleur, Piccinni, Puccini, Purcell, Quilter, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Reger, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Florent Schmitt, Schoenberg, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Spohr, Strauss, Tauber, Tessarini, Tippett, Verdi, Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, von Weber, Wolf-Ferrari, Zacconi. Highlights: the autograph ms. of von Weber's Second Piano… Read More