Rare books from J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC

All watercolors executed on quality watercolor paper. Summer and Smoke. Play by Tennessee Williams 5 original watercolor and graphite costume designs with fabric swatches attached for the character Alma. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil. Undated, but ca. 1980s. Sheet size 380 x 275 mm. each. Together with 11 preparatory costume design sketches in graphite, also for the character Alma. Sheet size 355 x 270 mm. each. Some minor wear. Good Woman of Setzuan. Play by Bertolt Brecht 4 original watercolor and graphite costume designs with fabric swatches attached for the characters Wang, God, Mrs. Young, and Mrs. Shin. Titled, signed, and dated by the artist 4 [April] [19]83. Sheet size ca. 380 x 275 mm. each. Sleeping Beauty. [?]Burlesque with Phyllis Diller 2 original watercolor and graphite costume designs for the characters The Lilac Fairy and the Fairy of the Crystal Fountain. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil. Undated. Sheet size ca. 386 x 305 mm. each. The somewhat risqué… Read More

Venezia: Haeredem Hieronymi Scoti [Girolamo Scotto], 1575. Small quarto. Plain ivory laid wrappers. With large woodcut printer's device to recto of each title and dedication to Prince Alfonso II of Ferrara to verso. Decorative woodcut devices to head of each part and fine decorative and historiated woodcut initials throughout. Loose in a limp vellum folder made from a fragment of contemporary early musical manuscript with neumatic notation on a 4-line staff ruled in red, light tan leather ties, manuscript titling to spine. Three [of six] parts: Cantus: 1f. (recto title, verso dedication), title), 3-51, [i] (index) pp. Altus: 1f. (recto title, verso dedication), 3-51, [i] (index) pp. Tenor: 1f. (recto title, verso dedication), 3-51, [i] (index) pp. Music printed in diamond-head notation. Contains the following 44 motets: Accepit Jesus calicem Afflige opprimentes Angelus domini Ave Maria Ave regina coelorum Biduanis ac triduanis Cantantibus organis Caro mea vere est eibus Congrega domine Columna… Read More

Wien ... Leipzig: Universal=Edition [PN U.E. 5334. 5336.], 1914. Folio. Original publisher's textured ivory wrappers with titling gilt to upper. 1f. (recto blank, verso with "No. 22" and Schoenberg's autograph signature), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] ("Vorwort" by Schoenberg), [i] (contents), [ii] (text of the 21 poems), 5-78, [ii] (blank) pp. Music engraved. With printed note to lower left corner of first page of music ("Copyright 1914 by Universal-Edition") and printed note to lower right corner of first page of music ("Stich und Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig"). Printed on fine handmade paper with a crown watermark. Housed in an attractive dark brown calf-backed dark ivory linen archival folding case with raised bands and titling gilt to spine. Signed by Schoenberg and with printed number "22" to verso of first leaf. Edges very slightly worn and browned. In exceptionally good condition overall. First Edition, first (deluxe) issue, limited to 50 signed and numbered copies, this… Read More

Paris: L'Auteur ... La Veuve Boivin ... Le Sr. Le Clerc, 1735. Tall folio (38.2 x 28.1 cm). Full polished tree calf with triple blind rules to edges, raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red title label gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), [ii] ("Avertissement," including notes on performance), [i] (table of contents), 2-49, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Lower portion of p. 15 (blank staves) completed with music in contemporary manuscript in black ink: an anonymous monophonic piece in C major with trio in C minor (with two flats only), notated in French violin (G1) clef, untitled but most probably for violin. Provenance From the important collection of André Meyer (1884-1974), Paris. Occasional small stains; edge tears; professional repair to pp. 43-44; some leaves slightly dampstained at outer edge; dedication leaf soiled at upper right corner with three small holes. A very good copy overall. First Edition, first Issue. Rare. Lesure p.… Read More

Romae: Ex typographia Haeredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650. 2 volumes bound in one. Folio. Full contemporary vellum with decorative device blindstamped to upper and lower boards within double inner rules with decorative cornerpieces, double outer rules, raised bands on spine. Profusely illustrated with musical examples printed typographically in diamond-head notation and with numerous decorative woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, illustrations, diagrams, tables, etc. throughout, including many of musical instruments. The plates are all finely engraved and illustrate a variety of musical instruments including the harpsichord, organ, strings, and winds. The musical examples include many different forms, including multiple contrapuntal part-writing. Vol. I 1f. (recto fine full-page engraved pictorial title by Baronius after a drawing by Paul Schor, incorporating a Canon Angelicus for 9 choirs of 36 voices, verso blank), 1f. (recto title with publisher's device incorporating a butterfly and… Read More

Vienne ... Leipsic: Hoffmeister & Comp. ... Bureau de Musique [PNs 53, 91], 1801. 2 volumes bound in one. Oblong folio. Modern marbled boards with dark orange title label gilt to spine. [1] (title), 2-87, [i] (blank) pp.; [1] (title), 2-97, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. With performance markings including fingering in a modern hand in pencil and in a 19th century hand in ink, the earlier markings mostly in Vol. II. Some browning, a bit heavier to title of Vol. I; occasional minor wear, edge tears, and offsetting; old paper repairs to blank margins of first three leaves of Vol. I, including title, and final leaf of Vol. II. Schmeider Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (2nd edition), p. 655. Schneider, p. 100. Hoboken I, 96 and 99. Fuld, p. 118. RISM B501 (no copies located in the US; Worldcat, however, records a copy of both volumes in the Riemenschneider Memorial Bach Library at Baldwin-Wallace College). Hoffmeister initially issued the WTC in 13 installments under the editorship of J. N. Forkel… Read More

Paris: Guillelmi Baudry, 1636. Two parts bound in one. Folio. Early full dark brown panelled leather. With 21 fine engraved illustrations and more than 100 woodcut illustrations, mainly of musical instruments; numerous musical examples (some in lute tablature) and diagrams throughout; occasional woodcut head- and tailpieces, ornaments, and decorative initials. Typeset. Text in Latin. Part I 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (dedication), 4ff. (preface), 184 pp. Bound with: Part II. Harmonicorum Instrumentorum. 168 pp. Provenance From the collection of Sir Frederick A. Gore Ouseley (1825-1889), English church musician, composer, professor of Music at Oxford University, and collector of music and music theory books, with his signature in pencil to free front endpaper. Some early notation in pencil to Vol. I, most likely in Ouseley's hand. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; restored and rebacked; endpapers slightly browned at margins. Slightly worn and browned; light to moderate… Read More

Roma: Appresso Vincenzo Lucrino, 1553. Octavo. Full carta rustica. 1f. (recto title with woodcut device, verso blank) + 39ff. (A in two, B-K in four, L in two). With diagrams, several musical examples, and historiated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. In a custom-made ivory vellum-backed box with octagonal vellum manuscript title label to upper. Early manuscript additions to several pages (verso of C4, recto of D1, verso of F4, recto of G1, verso of G2, and verso of L2) and "4" in manuscript to head of title. Binding slightly worn, soiled, and foxed. Minor internal wear; title slightly soiled, small holes archivally repaired; title and following leaf slightly browned; box worn. Rare second edition of the work first published one year earlier. Cortot, p. 60. Davidsson, p. 26. Gregory-Sonneck, p. 72. Hirsch I, 142. Wolffheim I, 591. RISM Écrits, p. 260 (the 1552 edition). Only two copies recorded at auction by Rare Book Hub, one in 1990 and the other in 1995, with no copies coming to… Read More

[Strasbourg]: [Joh. Grüninger], 1512. Quarto. Modern full dark brown calf with central decorative blindstamped device within single blindstamped rule to both boards, raised bands on spine in decorative blindstamped compartments, earlier dark red leather title label gilt, red speckled edges. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3 preliminary leaves + 647, [i] (blank) pp. + 4ff. (most with extensive early annotations in manuscript). Book I A1-4, B1-Z8, a1-k8 Book II A1-4, B1-F6, G1-4, H1-6, J1-N4 Title printed within fine woodcut border; colophon to foot of final recto. With numerous diagrams, tables, and fine woodcut illustrations throughout, some full-page, and musical examples in Hufnagel notation to N3v-N4r, N5r-N6r, and N7-N8. The full-page print to M4v in the "Musicae speculativae" section depicts an ensemble of musicians playing organ, harp, lute, and flute; a poet wearing a laurel; and a central female figure with an elaborate ornamental headdress holding a score with a 6-note hexachordal… Read More

Folio. Quarter dark green cloth with lighter green boards with "Copeland[!] Gip's Song" gilt to spine. 1f. (recto autograph title, verso blank), 3 pp. music, 1 p. autograph text of 5 verses (20 lines) of the song by librettist Edwin Denby. Notated in black ink on 24-stave printed music paper. Housed in a custom-made full dark green cloth clamshell box and matching slipcase. The Second Hurricane, an opera scored for young voices in two acts, was first performed in New York City at the Henry Street Settlement playhouse on 21 April 1937 in a production designed by Orson Welles (1915-1985) and conducted by Lehman Engel (1910-1982), with the small speaking role of Mr. Maclenahan performed by noted American stage and film actor Joseph Cotten (1905-1994). The opera was Copland's first attempt at composing in the genre; the present number, Gyp's Song, is the first of the opera's four solos. "A fashionable audience of artists and patrons turned out for opening night. ... Critics mostly received the work,… Read More

5 measures in piano score, being the first theme from the second movement of the work, The Story of the Kalander Prince. Notated in black ink on ivory card stock with autograph titling, marked "Allegretto" at head. Signed in full. Undated, but ca. 1890-1900. Small oblong octavo (63 x 101 mm.). Slightly browned; penultimate measure and a portion of "Rimsky" in the composer's signature slightly smudged. Composed in 1888, Sheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov's characteristically colorful orchestral work, was inspired by the fantastical One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights), a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales in Arabic compiled during the Islamic Golden Age (the 8th-13th centuries) and first translated into English in ca. 1706-21. "Russian orientalism received its best-known expression in Sheherazade (1888). The work is based on A Thousand and One Nights, the story of the sultana Sheherazade, who keeps her husband, the sultan Shakriar, from his intention of killing her by telling him stories… Read More

London: Printed at Cluer's Printing Office in Bow-Church-Yard, and sold there, and by B. Creake at ye Bible in Jermyn Street St. James, 1724. Octavo. Newly bound in quarter dark tan calf with marbled boards, raised bands on spine in compartments gilt, dark red decorative title label gilt. 1f. (recto engraved title, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege dated June 14th 1720, verso blank), 1f. (index), 118 pp. Engraved. With an exceptionally fine illustrated title depicting performers playing on the harpsichord and bass viol, with "James's" (?the engraver) to lower right. Names of singers printed within the score include Senesino, Robinson, Durastanti, Berenstadt, Cuzzoni, and Boschi. Versos of first three leaves with simple watercolor drawings of a horse and flowers; final blank leaf with a carefully noted calligraphic ownership marking: "George Waltons Book 1805." Margins of title very slightly stained. A very attractive copy overall. First Edition, first issue. HWV 17. 39476. Fraenkel:… Read More

Wien: Cappi und Diabelli, Graben No. 1133 [PN C. et D. No. 1380], 1823. Oblong folio. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [3] (blank), 4- 43 pp. Engraved throughout. "Gestochen v: Jos: Sigg" printed at lower right of page 43. Watermark letters "UFF." Housed in a custom made black linen clamshell box with dark red leather label gilt to spine. Slightly browned and soiled; repairs to spine. A very good, wide-margined copy overall. First Edition, early issue of the "Diabelli" Variations. New Kinsky, p. 772-73. Dorfmüller-Weinhold, p. 229. Hoboken 2, 484. "The publisher Diabelli commissioned 50 composers to write a variation apiece on his theme and was delighted to receive 33 from Beethoven, immediately recognizing the work as a major masterpiece." Grove Music Online "The Diabelli Variations were begun in 1819, completed in 1823, and published in June 1823 by Cappi and Diabelli, who perceptively announced it as 'a great and important masterpiece worthy to be ranked with the imperishable creations of the… Read More

Addressed to Lully as "Compositeur de la Musique de la Chambre du Roi." Large oblong octavo (179 x 240 mm.). Lully acknowledges receipt of wages in cash the amount of one and fifty livres, his salary for the preceding quarter (July-September) of the current year. Dated 17 October 1676 at conclusion and signed in full, "Jean Baptiste Lully." With small oval duty handstamp to head of royal device surrounded by the words "Generalité de Paris," with "Quittance" to left of device, "Cinq Sols" to right. Vellum very slightly browned; some creasing; two small holes, just touching the word "cent" and the descender on the "p" of Lully's signature. "Lully, regarded throughout Enlightenment Europe as the leading figure in French music, created a style which was truly his own, drawing on many sources which he was probably better able to assimilate than anyone else in his time. The language he forged, and to which he sometimes brought exceptional breadth, could leave no one indifferent, and it still attracts… Read More

6 carefully written pages in Mendelssohn's characteristically dense script. Quarto. Dated Leipzig, 1 January 1839. With integral autograph address panel with oval Leipzig handstamp and two circular "London 17 Jan 1839" datestamps. In German (with translation and transliteration). A long and highly interesting letter with significant musical content, including mention of the composer's latest works (a sonata for piano and cello, three quartets for violins dedicated to the Royal Prince of Sweden, his psalm "Wie der Hirsch" and various songs with and without words); expressions of satisfaction with both the orchestra and soloists performing his most recent concerts, played to an overflowing hall; his participation in the Dusseldorf festival; his admiration for the poems Klingemann has sent him; and considerable discussion of his personal affairs including news of Vincent Novello and the soprano Clara Novello, Hogarth, the soprano Mary Shaw, Thalberg, and Moscheles; his travels, including a possible… Read More