Online Sale: Music, Opera and Theatre

Anonymous (18th century) The way to keep him as perform'd at the Richmond theatre &c Act V, etching, with early hand-colouring, on laid paper with...

Ballet scrapbook (A), containing 1 T.L.s. from Margot Fonteyn and signed photographs of Anton Dolin and Alicia Markova, newspaper excerpts, photo...

Ballets Russes.- Brunoff (Maurice de) Collection des Plus Beaux Numeros de Comoedia Illustre et des Programmes consacres aux Ballets & Galas Russe...

Bartolozzi (Francesco, 1727-1815) Jason et Medée, Ballet tragique (after Nathaniel Dance), etching and aquatint, printed in sepia, on laid paper n...

Beaumont (Cyril W.) A Bibliography of Dancing, reprint, New York, 1963 § Derra de Moroda (Friderica) The Dance Library: A Catalogue, Munich, 1982 ...

Benserade (Isaac de) Les Oeuvres, 2 vol., additional engraved titles, woodcut decorations, browned, contemporary sprinkled sheep, spines gilt, rub...

[Boullay (Gustave)] Les Danses des Salons par un observateur, first edition, signed and inscribed by the author "A mon ami Ambroise Giroudeau, l'a...

Callas (Maria).- Stassinopoulos (Arianna) Maria: beyond the legend, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author, plates, original boards...

Campardon (Émile) L'Académie Royale de Musique au XVIIIe Siècle, 2 vol., one of 300 copies on Hollande, modern cloth, uncut, Paris, 1884 § Douglas...

Commedia dell'Arte.- Cornelis Vermeulen (c. 1644-1708) Portrait of the actor Angelo Costantini in the role of Mezetin in the Commedia dell'Arte, a...

Commedia dell'arte.- Sturmer (Johann Heinrich) Arlequin, Pierrot, Columbine, Scapin, four etchings in original hand-colouring, each 190 x 117 mm. ...

Dance - Illustrated Sheet Music.- A good group of Victorian sheet music with decorative covers, including 'No.1, Jullien's Original Mazurka, or Th...

Despréaux (Jean-Étienne) Mes Passe-temps: Chansons suivies de l'Art de la Danse, Poëme en quatre chants, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engra...

Desp[rez] de B[oissy] (Charles) Lettres...sur les Spectacles; avec une Histoire des Ouvrages pour & contre les Théatres, 2 vol. in 1, fourth editi...

[Destouches (Philippe Néricault)] Les Amours de Ragonde, Comedie en Musique, representée devant le roi, sur le Théatre des petits Appartemens à Ve...

[Diderot (Denis) and Jean d'Alembert.] Encyclopédie Methodique. Arts Académiques. Équitation, Escrime, Danse, et Art de Nager, text only, half-tit...

Fertiault (François) Histoire Anecdotique et Pittoresque de la Danse chez les Peuples Anciens et Modernes, heavily foxed, 1854 § [?Levi (Eliphas)]...

Garneray (Auguste Simon) A group of costumes, six from the ballet Clary, choreographed by Louis Milan and four from the opera-ballet La Lampe Merv...

Garrick (David).- Fisher (Edward, 1722-1781) Garrick between Comedy and Tragedy, after Joshua Reynolds, mezzotint, printed before any letters, on ...

Garrick (David).- Green (Valentine, 1739-1813) David Garrick, Esqr (after Thomas Gainsborough), mezzotint and etching, with scratched lettering, o...

Garrick (David).- Sayer (Robert) and John Smith of Cheapside. Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage, two engraved title...

Garrick (David).- Sayer (Robert) and John Smith of Cheapside. [Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage], one engraved tit...

Garrick (David).- A group of seven prints of Garrick in character, including Finlayson's 'Mr Garrick in the character of Sr John Brute' after Zoff...

Gautier (Théophile), Jules Janin & Philarète Chasles. Les Beautés de l'Opéra, first edition, signed presentation copy from one of the authors (Phi...

Gautier (Théophile) Théatre. Mystère, Comédies et Ballets, first edition, original printed yellow wrappers, uncut, glacine wrapper browned and sli...

Gregor (Joseph) and René Fülöp-Miller. Das russische Theater, first edition, colour plates, illustrations, prospectus loosely inserted, original r...

Group of six portraits of actors (A), including John Smith's 'Mr William Penkethman Sworn Comedian to ye Queen of Great Britain' after Johann Rudo...

Group of five prints of English actors in character (A), including Hodges's 'Mr Edwin in the Character of Lingo' after John Alefounder, Peter van ...

Haid (Johann Elias, 1736-1809) The actor Foote in the right as the major of the Westminster Militia, (after Zoffany), mezzotint and etching, a scr...

Heath (Charles) Beauties Of The Opera And Ballet, colour plates, illustrations, modern morocco by Bayntun, gilt, g.e., 1845 § Tesnohlidek (Rudolf)...

Isabey (Jean Baptiste) Sophie Gail (1775-1819), lithograph portrait of the singer and composer, sheet 285 x 225 mm. (11 ¼ x 8 ¾ in.), signed in th...

[Ivchenko (Valerien I.)], "V.Svetlov". Sovremennyi Balet [The Modern Ballet], first edition, text in Russian, plates, illustrations and decoration...

Jackson (Michael, active c. 1753) Miss Nancy Dawson, mezzotint and etching, on cream laid paper with indistinct text-based watermark, platemark 35...

Jeanne (Paul) Bibliographie des Marionnettes, illustrations, scattered spotting, later cloth-backed boards, original wrappers bound in, Paris, 192...

Jefferys (Thomas, publisher) [The Habits of the principal Characters on the English Stage], set of 12 etched and engraved plates in fresh original...

Jouve (Pierre Jean) Décor de Don Juan, plates, loose as issued in original wrappers, slip-case, Geneva, 1957 § Dominic (Zoë) Frederick Ashton; A C...

Jullien (Adolphe) Hector Berlioz; Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres, first edition, half-title, 14 original lithographs by Fantin-Latour, 2 engraved plates, i...

Korea.- The Royal Ballet & Opera in Seoul, colour illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket and glacine outer jacket, 4to, Seoul, The Dong-A Ilbo...

Karsavina (Tamara) Theatre Street, signed presentation copy from the author to Valery Panov inscribed on front free endpaper, additional material ...

Lacauchie (Alexandre) Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, 80 mounted lithographed portraits of actors and dance...

Lancret (Nicolas, 1690-1743) After. Mlle Sallé, engraving and etching, by Nicholas de Larmessin (1648-1755), on laid paper with indistinct waterma...

Lecomte (H.) Evariste Gherardi jouant le personage d'Arlequin; Marc Antoine Romagnezi dans le personage du Docteur Balouard, two lithographs in or...

Lee (Laurie).- Berkeley (Sir Lennox) Autograph music signed at head from Laurie Lee's 'Signs in the Dark' for Chorus and String Orchestra, with 5 ...

Leoncavallo (Ruggero) Pagliacci, English Adaptation by Frederck E. Weatherly, Vocal Score, signed presentation inscription from the composer sign...

Levinson (Andre) Bakst: the Story of the Artist's Life, one of 315 copies, plates and illustrations, most colour, many with captioned tissue-guard...

Levinson (Andre) The Designs of Leon Bakst for the Sleeping Princess, one of 1000 copies, portrait by Picasso, 54 mounted colour plates, all with ...

Libretti.- Bellini (Vincenzo) La Sonnambula: An Opera in Five Acts, signed by W. Gust. Plumer on title, front free endpaper, upper cover and in te...

Liston (John).- A group of nine prints of the comic actor John Liston, with William Ward's mezzotint portrait after John Jackson (1778-1831), and ...

Little Review (The), Special Theatre Number, illustrations, wrappers after Frederick John Kiesler, spine slightly browned, some light creasing to ...

L'Oeuvre, Revue Internationale des Arts du Théâtre, plates by Bakst, Lautrec, Renouard and others, loose as issued, preserved in original card che...

[Lully (Jean-Baptiste)] Recueil des Opera, des Balets, & des plus belles Pieces en Musique..., vol.2-5 & 9 only (of ?10), 34 works only in 5 vol. ...

Mascagni (Pietro) Cavalleria Rusticana, English Translation by Frederic E. Weatherley, Vocal Score, signed presentation inscription from the compo...

Maurice (Charles) Histoire Anecdotique du Théatre de la Littérature..., 2 vol., author's signature of authentication on verso of first half-title,...

Moreau de Saint-Méry (Médéric-Louis-Elie) De la Danse, second Bodoni edition, light foxing, red bookplate of contemporary paste-paper boards, pape...

Noverre (Jean Georges) Lettres sur la Danse, et sur les Ballets, first edition, second issue, engraved coat-of-arms at head of dedication, tear to...

Reade (Brian) Ballet Designs and Illustrations 1581-1940: A Catalogue Raisonné, original cloth, HMSO for Victoria & Albert Museum, 1967 § [De Mart...

Reinhardt (Max) 25 Jahre Deutsches Theater. Ein Tafelwerk, 2 vol., illustrations, vol.1 original cloth, dust-jacket, vol.2 original wrappers, slip...

Sandby (Paul, 1731-1809) Six guineas entrance and a guinea a lesson, etching and aquatint, printed in sepia, on cream laid paper with large waterm...

Shakespeare (William).- Bleeck (Peter van, c. 1695-1764) Mrs. Cibber in the character of Cordelia, mezzotint and etching, the full plate before th...

Shakespeare (William).- Johnston (H., active. c. 1830-1840) Title page design for the Seven Ages of Man, watercolour, heightened with white and go...