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1856Cat353Boston Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson & Co 1856. Lithographed sheet music title page after a photograph by Turner & Cutting. Folio. Some trimming and edge wear; image strong; good to very good. An early and scarce lithographic design by Winslow Homer executed during his apprenticeship at J. H. Bufford & Co. and among a small group of sheet music illustrations from his formative period. The image commemorates the widely publicized wager made by journalist and political figure Benjamin Perley Poore during the heated 1856 Massachusetts elections which were shaped by the collapse of the Whigs and the rise of the Republicans. Poore backing one slate generally identified with the Democratic or anti-Republican interest agreed that if his side lost he would wheel a barrel of apples from his home in West Newbury to Boston; upon defeat he fulfilled the pledge completing the roughly thirty-six-mile journey to considerable public attention. Homer’s composition after a now-lost photograph by Turner & Cutting shows Poore mid-route with the barrel mounted in a wheelbarrow accompanied by amused onlookers and a roadside sign indicating Boston. OCLC 80062698 locating four copies. Oliver Ditson & Co unknown
1891218901Friedrich Pustet Regensburg 1891. Softcover 1891-1895.Zustand: mit Kennungen einer Privatbibliothek. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, paperback
1896218937Friedrich Pustet Regensburg 1896. Softcover 1896-1900. Zustand: mit Kennungen einer Privatbibliothek. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen dennoch gut. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, paperback
1840004685Boston: Parker & Ditson 1840. Paperback. Good . 2 volumes: 28 4 38 2 p.: music; 26 x 33 cm. Original plain wrappers included in page count. Handwritten on front wrappers "Part: 1" and " Part 2." First edition. Organist and composer Heinrich Christoph Zeuner 1795-1857 was born in Saxony but spent most of his career in Boston where he was associated with the Handel and Haydn Society from 1830 to 1837 and then Philadelphia where he was organist first at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and later at Arch Street Presbyterian Church. Extremely scarce. In Good Condition: wrappers are lightly soiled and separating along the spines; old dampstaining in Part I primarily along upper edge of pages and in Part II along gutter; a few pencil marks in margins; otherwise clean and solid. Parker & Ditson paperback
1894MASTER272952IPHILADELPHIA: HUBBARD PUBLISHING CO. G IN GRAY CLOTH W/BLACK LETTERING. OVERSIZE FLEXIBLE BOARDS. Pages: 960. . 1894. HARDCOVER. FLORAL EPS. SOILING TO CLOTH & SOME PAGE EDGES. A FEW SMALL CHIPS & TEARS TO PASTE-DOWNS. ALL TEXT CLEAN BINDINGS INTACT. . HUBBARD PUBLISHING CO. hardcover
185427697Philadelphia: Hays & Zell 1854. First printing. Pamphlet. Good overall. Signature on the inside cover of Edmund Hart. Explains the rudiments of music scales inversions dictionary of Italian music terms and many sheet music songs for the flute.<br /> Oblong 8vo 79pp 1 index 17pp of text 62 pages of score and 1pp of index. Stiff paper wrappers cloth spine. Covers dusty corners chipped closed tear at fold line on cover light foxing throughout. Still a sound collectible copy. OCLC: 61560560 1 copy at McGill. Hays & Zell unknown
1864003101New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co 1864. Paperback. Good . 79 1 p.: music; 17 x 26 cm. Grey paper wrappers printed in black with black cloth spine. Title vignette signed: Spiegle-Johnson. Title index on final unpaginated page. Publisher's advertisements for musical instruments and music on back wrapper. Copyright 1857 by Firth Pond & Co. John Firth and William A. Pond separated in 1863 and William A. Pond & Co. published at No. 547 Broadway the address given here from 1864 to 1875. Arranged for flute violin and violoncello as picture on the front wrapper and title page. "In all pieces of three or four parts the two lowest staves can be used as a pianoforte or melodeon accompaniment." Contains songs by Stephen Foster: Oh Boys Carry Me 'Long -- My Old Kentucky Home -- Eulalie -- Nelly Was a Lady -- Jennie with the Light-Brown Hair -- Old Dog Tray -- Old Folks at Home -- Maggie By My Side -- Willie We Have Missed You -- Ellen Bayne -- Hard Times -- Nelly Bly -- Nancy Till -- I See Her Still in My Dreams -- Gentle Annie -- Farewell My Lily Deart; taken from operas: Why Ask If I Remember Thee from Lucia di Lammermoor -- Brindisi and Those Pleasant Days Are Gone both from La Traviata; and by the arranger himself under his own name and under his pseudonym Alice Hawthorne: Annie Laurie Schottische -- As We Gather'd in the Hay -- What is Home Without a Mother -- Our Good Old Friends -- The Summer of the Year. Also contains: Tit-tat-to Schottische / M. Florence -- Fugitive Waltz / A. Coinchon -- Estelle Waltz / Porter -- Billy Grimes -- Gizelle Quadrilles / Porter -- Harvest-Hompe Schottische / W.F. Pratt -- Nelly Bell -- Eclipse Polka / Koenig -- Hoosier Dance -- Laura Schottische / G. Riter -- Poor Bessie's Song -- Lulu or Sontag Polka -- Cheer Boys Cheer -- Stampede Cotillion -- "Some Punkins" -- Smoke-House -- Villikens and Dinah -- Kitty Tyrrell -- Wyoming Waltz -- Jockey Hornpipe -- Over the Summer Sea -- Baxter's March -- Old Friends Polka / Joseph Wood Jr. -- Old Bob Ridley -- La Sicilienne -- Signal March / H. Kleber -- Rainbow Schottische / H. Kleber -- Green Grow the Rushes Schottische -- Pop Goes the Weasel -- Midnight Schottische / F.H. Brown -- Comet Jig -- Blue Bells of Scotland -- Hail Columbia -- Yankee Doodle -- The Red White and Blue Columbia the Gem of the Ocean -- Star-Spangled Banner -- Mount Vernon Polka -- Banquet Waltz -- Massa's in the Cold Ground -- New Cauliflower Cotillon -- Sounds From Home -- Leonora Polka / Carl Merz -- Wait for the Wagon -- Few Days -- Serious Family Polka -- Gipsy Schottische / F.H. Brown -- Hand-Organ Polka -- Concert March / Wollenhaupt -- Serenade Medley. An extremely scarce collection of compositions and arrangements of popular music by Philadelphia musician Septimus Winner 1827-1902. In Good Condition: cloth starting to separate from each end of spine; loss at wrapper corners with minor loss of printing from lower corner of back wrapper; wrapper slightly soiled; occasional light foxing; faint writing inside of back wrapper; otherwise clean and tight. Wm. A. Pond & Co paperback
1835003099Baltimore: George Willig Jr. 1835. Paperback. Good -. 26 p. front wrapper included in pagination: music drawing of a piano keyboard; 17 x 27 cm. Plain wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. First 8 pages present Elements of Music. 31 tunes arranged for piano. Contents: 4 simple unnamed tumes -- Mark my Alford -- Buy a Broom -- Basket Cottillion -- Life let us Cherish -- Behold how brightly breaks the morning -- Bruce's address -- Blue bells of Scotland -- There's nae luck about the house -- Absence -- Malbrook -- Pleyel's German hymn -- Kinlock of Kinlock -- Gaily the Troubadour -- Auld lang Syne -- Away with melancholy -- Bonny Boat -- They're a noddin -- Di Tanti palpiti -- Drunken Sailor -- Campbells are coming -- Market Chorus in Masaniello -- Swiss Boy -- Sicilian Mariner's hymn -- Paddy Carey -- Washington's March -- Minstrel's returned from the war. Very scarce. In Good- Condition: lacking back wrapper; front wrapper lightly soiled lacking corners edges chipped; p. 3 following front wrapper dust soiled; foxing throughout; otherwise clean. George Willig, Jr. paperback
1851List3661New York: Firth Pond & Co 1851. Folio sheet music illustrated tinted lithographic cover by Sarony & Major. 5 pp. including cover. Approximately 13 x 10 inches. Light toning and minor edge wear; archival tape to spine likely removed from a volume at some point very good overall. A particularly handsome illustrated edition of Stephen C. Foster’s sentimental ballad “Willie My Brave†featuring an elaborate tinted lithographic cover by the New York firm of Sarony & Major. The central image depicts a seated woman gazing out toward the sea while a greyhound rests its head upon her lap conveying the melancholy theme of absence and waiting suggested by the song. Surrounding vignettes include dramatic maritime scenes with a ship struggling in rough waters and another vessel sailing toward a distant harbor. The dog is especially well done while the accompanying ship in a storm drives home the point of the song. Among Foster’s many illustrated title pages this example is often considered one of the most attractive. According to William H. Fuld’s Pictorial Bibliography of First Editions of Stephen Foster 1957 the present example meets all points for the first edition initial state. The song itself enjoyed considerable popularity in the early 1850s and appeared in numerous subsequent printings. Firth, Pond & Co unknown
1883208551883. Very good overall. An interesting hand painted and roneoed ship's musical program. Produced for an Australian ship voyage 29th November 1883 with the proceeds of the performance "devoted to the relief of the suffering of a destitute and invalided steerage passenger". <br /> <br /> The evenings proceedings are roneographed inside the fold. It lists 15 performances including arrangements for violin and piano; a "letter song: Rip Van Winkle"; other songs a recitation; "Italian boat song"; and a vocal duet. The performers include Mr. & Mrs. Rignold and Signor Steffani. Mr. & Mrs. G. Rignold are recorded as having traveled from Adelaide to Sydney on 29th January 1883 on the ship "Birksgate" and in October 1886 they traveled on the ship "Hanroto" from Hobart to Melbourne with Mr. & Mrs. Lohr all of them described as "Theatrical". Signor Steffani is listed in the Sand's Sydney Directory for 1883 at 129 Phillips St. and in 1895 as a "teacher of singing" at 56 Elizabeth St. ancestry dot com. In fact the performances by "professionals" were most likely money making efforts for the performers who traveled repeatedly between various ports in Australia. One wonders if the money collected actually went to relieve the suffering of "a destitute and invalided steerage passenger" unless that is Mr. Rignold or Mr. Steffani. <br /> <br /> The R. M. S. John Elder made voyages between London and Australia see article in the Sydney Morning Herald referring to arrival from London on 15 July 1885 just 6 months after this voyage on the NLA website. It seems possible that this voyage was only in Australian waters as the Rignold's were already in Australia in January 1883. <br /> <br /> The cover of the program is hand painted with a background design of gingko leaves daffodils and a dragon fly with a tropical island view superimposed. On blue coated paper folded with the number 1 penciled at lower left of the front. In some spots the text of the reproduction is faded and it has been re-written by hand in purple ink. Short closed tear bottom edge. Folded folio 8 3/4 x 13 1/2". The paper is speckled with white dots akin to some unusual sort of bleaching perhaps related to the paper making process as it skirts the cover illustration. <br /> <br /> An unusual survival. unknown
18837986Oliver Ditson Boston 1883. HB NODJ ISSUED 1883 1st edition Brown decorated Embossed Cloth with Gold Gilt Cover minor Rub Wear Scuff 96 pgs interior Nice Tight Clean with pg mark or small Chips VG/VG- AS-IS NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Oliver Ditson Boston hardcover
184141574Philadelphia Baltimore etc. 1841. Attractive folio contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards hinges starting lower spine wear. Morocco ownership label of Aurelia Tremper 1824-1887 a wealthy Philadelphian with significant land holdings in Torresdale Park and who acquired this book some time before her marriage to Andrew Stevenson. Some of the song sheets are lightly to moderately spotted. Good plus consisting of: <br /> <br /> Highlights: <br /> Francis Johnson. "Philadelphia Gray's Quick Step . . . as Performed by Johnson's Brass Band." 3 pages. Illustrated cover; minor worming; inked stamp of Philadelphia music seller. A composition by Francis "Frank" Johnson 1792-1844 of Philadelphia one of the first successful African-American composers. An earlier issue was printed by the predecessor firm of Fiot Meignen & Co. Philadelphia: L. Meignen & Co. circa 1839-1842.<br /> John Smith. "The Fireman's Song." Dramatic illustrated cover. Boston 1839. <br /> "Yankee Doodle & Star Spangled Banner / Hail Columbia." 4 pages no cover. Philadelphia: Ld. Meignen & Co. circa 1842. Listed in Levy & Fuld's addendum to Muller "Unrecorded Early Printings of 'The Star Spangled Banner'" Notes 27:2 December 1970 #55 stating that it is a reprint of an earlier Osborn's Music Saloon edition. .<br /> A Lady of Charleston. "United States Marine March." 2 facing pages. Philadelphia: A. Fiot undated.<br /> <br /> C.F. Wieland. "The Carrier Dove." Illustrated cover. Philadelphia 1839<br /> "The Carrier Pigeon." Philadelphia undated<br /> W. Clifton. "The Last Link is Broken." Philadelphia undated.<br /> John H. Hewitt. "The Betrothed." Illustrated cover. Philadelphia 1840<br /> Lockhart & Arkwright. "Xarita or the Bride of Andallo." Quite foxed. Philadelphia undated<br /> J.E. Spilman. "Flow Gently Sweet Afton." Stated second edition. Philadelphia 1838<br /> John Smith. "The Fireman's Song." Dramatic illustrated cover. Boston 1839<br /> W.A. Newland. "Nothing Else To Do." Philadelphia 1839<br /> George Linley. "To Meet Again With Thee." Philadelphia undated<br /> Mrs. Hemans. "The Captive Knight." Boston undated<br /> Frederic Berat. "My Normandy." Philadelphia undated<br /> Seymour & Weigl. "Leonore." Baltimore MD undated<br /> A Young Lady of Georgia. "No More." Philadelphia 1836<br /> Moscheles. "Erin is My Home." Baltimore undated<br /> Fry & Bellini. "Do I Not Prove Thee." Philadelphia 1841<br /> G.A. Hodson. "The Lake of Como Morning." Philadelphia undated<br /> G.A. Hodson. "The Lake of Como Evening." Philadelphia undated<br /> PlanchÈ & Barnett. "Rise Gentle Moon." Philadelphia undated<br /> Moore & Stevenson. "The Meeting of the Waters." New York undated<br /> Henri Herz. "We Have Lived and Loved Together." Philadelphia undated.<br /> J. Beuler. "Come and Take Tea in the Arbor." Illustrated cover stated second edition. Philadelphia undated.<br /> Madam Malibran. "There is No Home Like My Own." Philadelphia undated<br /> Alexander Ball. "Tell Him I Love Him Yet." Baltimore 1835<br /> Henry R. Bishop. "Home Sweet Home." Philadelphia undated<br /> Jeffery & Nelson. "The Rose of Allandale." Philadelphia undated<br /> "Yankee Doodle & Star Spangled Banner / Hail Columbia." 4 pages no cover. Philadelphia: Ld. Meignen & Co. circa 1842. <br /> Louis Major. "Grand Pot Pourri Brillant." Philadelphia undated.<br /> Rossini. "Overture of the Celebrated Opera Il Turco in Italia." Boston undated.<br /> Francis Johnson. "Philadelphia Gray's Quick Step . . . as Performed by Johnson's Brass Band." 3 pages. Illustrated cover; minor worming; inked stamp of Philadelphia music seller. Philadelphia: L. Meignen & Co. circa 1839-1842. <br /> George Hews. "Webster's Quick Step." Philadelphia undated<br /> A Lady of Charleston. "United States Marine March." 2 facing pages. Philadelphia: A. Fiot undated<br /> "The Russian March." Philadelphia undated<br /> C.P. Francis. "The Grand Russian March." Philadelphia 1835<br /> Auber & Unger. "March from the Opera of Fra Diavolo." Philadelphia undated with 1841 gift inscription<br /> John H. Hewitt. "The Nahant Quadrilles." Illustrated cover. Philadelphia 1836<br /> "Admired Cotillions for Balls and Private Parties." Baltimore undated<br /> "The Campbells are Coming / The Cheat." Philadelphia undated<br /> T. Comer. "The Boyleston Quadrilles." Boston 1836<br /> E.L. Walker. "The Rochester Waltz & Gallopade." Philadelphia undated<br /> A Lady. "The Much Admired Kensington or Brattleborough Waltz." Philadelphia undated<br /> W.C. Peters. "The Bardstown Waltz." Baltimore undated<br /> H. Herz. "Cinderella Waltz." Philadelphia undated<br /> W.C. Peters. "The Bonhorst Hop Waltz." Baltimore undated<br /> Louis Strack. "Mary's Waltz." Baltimore undated<br /> S. Carusi. "The Corinthian Waltz." Washington undated<br /> "The Stop Waltz." Baltimore undated<br /> "Duke of Reichstadts Waltz." Philadelphia undated<br /> Henry Rohbock. "The Mary Waltz." Baltimore undated<br /> "Nicholson's Celebrated Waltz." Baltimore undated<br /> R. Schroeder. "The Swiss Boy." Philadelphia undated<br /> "Herr Clines' Dance." Philadelphia undated<br /> "Juvenile Waltzes." Baltimore undated<br /> J. Geldon. "None So Pretty a Juvenile Lesson." Philadelphia undated<br /> "Barcarolle Waltz." Philadelphia undated<br /> "Richmond Waltz." Baltimore undated<br /> "The Fall of Paris." Philadelphia undated<br /> Thomas Smith. "Napoleon's Fall." Philadelphia undated<br /> <br /> Other illustrated covers include C.F. Wieland "The Carrier Dove" Philadelphia 1839; John H. Hewitt "The Betrothed" Philadelphia 1840; J. Beuler "Come and Take Tea in the Arbor" stated second edition Philadelphia undated; and John H. Hewitt "The Nahant Quadrilles" Philadelphia 1836. $1750.00. unknown
1809212582n.g. 1809. Softcover Die Jahresangabe ist ungefähr nicht genannt. Zustand: Bibliotheksexemplar mit Kennungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten berieben. Der Nachsatz ist fleckig. n.g., paperback
186231096Augusta Georgia: Blackmar & Bro 1862. Sheet music. Good. Sheet music. Approx. 11.5" x 9.5". 4 pages. Decorative borders title and penciled name of Julia Slidd on page 1. Archival tape repair on spine. <br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 7580. Blackmar & Bro unknown
185927062Boston MA: Oliver Ditson & Co. 1859. 1859. Good. - Small quarto 9 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide softcover bound in printed tan wrappers with an engraved pictorial ad on the rear wrap. The binding is lightly bumped. 28 pages including profuse music staves plus 3-page publisher's catalog & ads. There is a short tear to the front edge of 1 page. The page corners are bumped & there is occasional light foxing. Overall a very good attractive copy. <p>The Italian text of "Ernani" by Francesco Maria Piave is based on the drama "Hernani" by Victor Hugo. It is here printed with an English translation. Though a title in Ditson's "Standard Opera Libretto" series there is printed music on part of 17 pages. The handsome engraved ad on the rear wrap depicts Oliver Ditson & Co.'s building in Boston. Boston, MA: Oliver Ditson & Co., (1859). paperback
1804002726Augsburg Augustae: Johann Jakob Lotter und Sohn 1804. Very Good -. The violoncello part only. 24 p.: music; 31 cm. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Publication information from library records. Woodcut headpiece and tailpiece. The composer Rochus Dedler 1779-1822 is best known today for the music used in the annual performances of the Passion Play in Oberammergau Germany. In Very Good- Condition: disbound but solid; small tears and chipping at lower fore-edge corner of last leaf without loss of printing; light creasing of lower corners of last few leaves; light soiling; otherwise clean and tight. Johann Jakob Lotter und Sohn unknown
1871222604Lancaster PA: Johann Bar's Sons 1871. Book. Fair. Leather Bound. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Continued title: "Auf Begehren der Bruderschaft der Mennonisten gemelnen aus vielen Kederbuchern gesammelt. Mit einem dreyfachen register." Unpartheyisches Singing Book: containing spirited songs and psalms for general use of the true worship. Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Small leather book 5 raised bands on spine bases of 2 closure straps clasps missing. 80 483 pp. plus 19 p. index. Musical scores and text in German 2 columns. Condition: Fair; front board almost detached; significant scuffing/chipping to covers and spine; foxing and age toning some page corners bent with a few tears to first few pages and some index pages; mudty smell from leather. 7 1/8" H x 4 1/2" W x 1 3/4" D. Johann Ba?r's Sons Hardcover
1900029812London- New York Etc.: Circa 1900 1900. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Carl Heinzen's Personal Archive Of Ephemera. Henriette M. Heinzen From Whose Estate These Examples Came Lived In Pasadena And Is Credited By Carl Wittke With Providing Archives For His Biography Of Her Grandfather The German Radical Karl Heinzen; Appaently Carl Heinzen The Violinist Was His Son. Music "The Curfew Bell" By Lynes After Rosa Hartwick Thorpe's Poem31 Pp. 1891 Faded Pencil Inscription Also Note I Think His Signature Of Heinzen As Director At A Certain Place 1892. Programme Town Hall Twickham2/12/1895 4 Pp. Brochure Archer's Anglo-American Musical Agency Season 18992 Pp Fine Press Covers Gilt Cord Binding. Brochure "Carl Heinzen" Archer'sanglo-American Musical Agency 8 Pp. Page From "St. James's Budget" Feb 24 1899 With Paragraph And Photo Of Heinzen; 10 1/2" X 8 1/4" Program St. James's Hall Feb 7Th 1899 8 Pp. Cover Ornately Decorated Red Borders Cord Bound Baines & Scarsbrook Printers; Flyer Printed In Blue On Both Sides For Same Program With Photograph Also Unused Tickets For Balcony And Stalls;Large Program Single Sheet On Red Paper "Chinese Matinee In Aid Of Two Chinese Charities Feb 21 1899 Folded; Large Newspaper Page From Kolnische Beitung 9 April 1899 With One Line Notice Of His Performance As "An American Violinist." Two Pages From The Gentleman's Journal" July15 1899 With Four Paragraphs About Heinzen And His Photo. Program Single Sheet Foled To Four Pages Photos "Mr. Elliott's Grand Afternoon Concert On Monday October 16Th No Year Indicated. Small Finely Printed Program Single Sheet Folded To Four Pages Miss Ella Franks' Dramatic Recital At Steinway Hall"The Minim" June 1899 Pp 212-234 Complete And With The "Supplement" One Page About Heinzen Photo. Program Grosvenor Club "At Home" Ladies Night June 22 1899 Dramatic Concert Etc. Single Sheet Folded To 4 Pp. Poster 20 X 30" Public Hall Hastings Mr. Wm. Slade's Grand Afternoon Concert.Friday Oct 27 1899 Near Fine. Programme The Quaver Club Single Sheet Foled To 4 Pp Program Of Music Saturday Nov 4 1899. The London Musical Courier Jan 26Th 1900 Cover Photo Of Heinze Etc. Stafford House St. James' Mr. Alfred Baylis' Morning Concert July 4Th No Year. Charterhouse Program Saturday Nov 3Rd 1900 Single Page Folded. London Musical Courier Nov. 9 1900 Again With Cover Photo Of Heinzen. The Carthusian December 1900Pp 26-26 Complete Salmon Covers Stapled Spine Mention Of Heinzen As "Heinzer" In Review Of Nov 3Rd Concert Put On By "Mr. Dressel". Program Steinway Hall "Miss Fannie Hirsch's Vocal Recital Thursday December 13Th 1900 12 Pp Illustrated Covers. New Vagabonds Club "Christmas Banquet" Dec 15 1900 Single Card Folded Into 6 Pp. Program Undated The Homolegical Association "Un The Musical" Heinzen Playing Bohm And Mlynarski Also Showing "Cheiro" Lecturing On "Personal Experiences" Amongst Many Performers That Day."La Paloma" Sheet Music By Yradier 1901 Signed By Heinzen At Top. Letter Nine Lines Handwritten From"Vert" Of Vert's Agency 6 Cork Street April 19 1907 Confirming Heinzen's Engagement At Steinway Hall The Following Day For 5/5/ A Concert Being Given By Helen Russell. <br/> <br/> Circa 1900 paperback
19002166180110034TWO GUITARS ABD TNTAPBI 1935 SHEET MUSIC FOLDER 537 1900-01-01. Sheet music. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear.Pages are not crisp white. TWO GUITARS ABD TNTAPBI 1935 SHEET MUSIC FOLDER 537 unknown
1890List3666New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co 1890. Folio sheet music illustrated pictorial cover printed in orange. 5 pp. including cover. Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Covers detached loss to front cover contents complete fair to good. A decorative late nineteenth-century dance publication for “Trocha†described on the cover as “A Cuban Dance†composed by the African American composer and bandleader W. H. Tyers. The elaborate pictorial cover incorporates stylized tropical foliage and island scenery rendered in a bold single-color design typical for the period’s fascination with exoticized musical forms. <br /> <br /> William H. Tyers 1870–1924 was an African American composer arranger and bandleader active in New York during the ragtime era. Born in Petersburg Virginia to Henry Tyers and Jane “Jennie†Jones both formerly enslaved he spent part of his youth in Richmond before his family relocated to New York City where he began studying piano. His early teachers recognized an aptitude for composition as well as performance and by the mid-1880s he was writing dance pieces including polkas and waltzes. Around the age of twenty Tyers secured employment as a music librarian and arranger with a touring concert company a position that brought him to Europe where he studied orchestration and arranging with Professor Gaspari in Hamburg.<br /> <br /> Returning to New York Tyers became active in the city’s rapidly expanding popular music trade working as an arranger and composer for publishers including F. A. Mills and Jos. W. Stern & Co. In 1896 he published “Sambo†a syncopated march sometimes considered to be one of the first instrumental rags.1 “Trocha†also released in the 1980s brought Tyers prominence for his ability to write Latin-style rhythms. It was re-issued in 1913 as a tango and its success led Tyers to work as an arranger with Joseph W. Stern in 1897.<br /> <br /> Tyers’ compositions blended contemporary American dance music with Caribbean and Latin themes a style reflected in pieces such as Trocha and later in his well-known ragtime composition Panama 1911 which remained a staple of early jazz and dance orchestras. OCLC finds two copies with different entries at the Cleveland Public Library and the British Museum Reference Collections. <br /> <br /> 1 “William Tyers Music Arranger†African American Registry https://aaregistry.org/story/william-tyers-born/ accessed March 10 2026. Jos. W. Stern & Co unknown
184814797Barcelona Italy: Libreris De D. Pablo Riera. Very Good. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in half-leather & marbled boards. The boards and spine are rubbed. The contents are very good to fine with the usual xlib marks. A very scarce work and perhaps even more obscure than scarce. ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 133 pages . Libreris De D. Pablo Riera hardcover
1876g8934Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas. G : in good condition plus. Cover rubbed and lightly scuffed at corners. Heraldic book-plate on paste-downs. Some light spotting to prelims. Teg. 1876. First Edition. Half leather marbled board cover. 300mm x 230mm 12" x 9". 302pp; 309pp. Volume II published in 1881. Includes lists of subscribers. Heraldic book-plate of James Johnston Newmill Elgin; 'Paratus ad Arma'. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Edmonston & Douglas hardcover
1867773Boston: Press of E. L. Balch 1867. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm. 7 ½ x 5 ¼ inches. 7 pp. Stitched as issued. Some staining to the wrappers signs of folding stitching loose but holding otherwise a good copy. Rare music publisher's catalogue listing retail teachers and wholesale prices. The instruction books cover the fields of piano-forte both instructional and theoretical piano music vocal methods and exercises organ instruction guitar accordion violin and flute instructions music for schools sacred music and brass band music. "Henry Tolman January 15 1821 Boston MA-November 20 1888 Cohasset MA had operated his own firm dealing in musical instruments and umbrellas since 1846 and had began publishing in 1849. In the early 1850s he merged with George D. Russell to form Russell & Tolman. One of the most significant music publishers in the United States during the 19th century Russell & Tolman published a great deal of popular music as well as works of noted American composers such as George F. Root. They also sold pianos. After the dissolution of Russell & Tolman in 1862 Tolman took over the catalogue and continued until 1870 as Henry Tolman & Co. He sold his sheet music plates to Root & Cady in 1868. From 1862 to 1868 he was the sole publisher of the Boston Musical Times and in 1865 was elected vice-president of the Board of Music Trade. Russell was joined by his brother Joseph M. Russell in 1863 to form G.D. Russell & Co. a similar publishing and dealing business which also undertook printing work." See Petrucci Music Library Website @ https://imslp.org/ for more historical information on Tolman & Co. Press of E. L. Balch unknown
186100280440Oliver Ditson Co. 1861 Maine 4th Regiment made up of Mid Coast volunteers. Nickerson later became a major at Gettysburg. This Quartette is extremely rare no copies listed OCLC. or held in Library of Congress. Decorative scroll lettering 2 loose pages have foxing and staining minor tears to edges a few pencil notes rear reading: ".a name then" Maine December 25th 1861" Song- "Not To Fast" "Hail to thee chieftain. McClellan was soon fired by Lincoln. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Oliver Ditson Co. paperback
182445263Paris.: Arthus Bertrand. Second edition. 1824. A sheet of printed music showing examples of Malay and Chinese music. Copper engraving from Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes. by Francois Peron and Louis Freycinet. Sheet measures approximately 27.5 x 37cm. . Arthus Bertrand. unknown
