23rd Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Purcell (Henry).
Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices, compos’d by Mr. Henry Purcell. Together, With such Symphonies for Violins or Flutes, As were by Him design’d for any of them: .....
Printed by William Pearson and sold by John Young, 1706, folio, [2], vi, [2], 190, 189-286 pages, lacking portrait frontis, [bound with]
idem, Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of the Choices Songs for ......... The Second Book, which renders the First Compleat.
Printed by William Pearson for Henry Playford, 1702, first edition, folio, [4], ii, [2], 32, 35-99, 140-141, 102-170, 143-146. 175-176 pages, irregular pagination but text and register continuous, ink amendments to pagination and register of pages 143-146.
Other than some very light foxing, contents generally clean, bound in contemporary panelled calf with wear to edges and spine, joints cracking with split to head of upper joint.
ESTC T154319 & T153688
Sold for £380
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Nov, 2022
Highlights include a collection of Opera scores and books from the Library of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, and two first edition Harry Potter books. Also included are early antiquarian books, modern first editions, illustrations, manuscripts, maps, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents.
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