Melbourne, R. Bell, Steam Printer, [circa 1870s]. Bound in contemporary watered cloth with 20 similar opera libretti with colonial imprints: twelve from Melbourne (three are dated 1860, 1873 and 1882); four from Sydney (two are dated 1866 and 1870); two from Adelaide (1871 and 1884) and one each from Auckland... More about L'Africaine. Opera in five acts. Music by G. Meyerbeer. Words by E. Scribe, as given by Lyster...

Melbourne, George Robertson and Company (Printed in Scotland), [1910]. The cover title is 'Some Childrens' [sic] Songs by Marion Alsop. Words by Dorothy McCrae. Designed by Edith Alsop'. Dorothy Frances McCrae (1879-1937) was a daughter of George Gordon McCrae, 'poet and man of letters', and sister of the poet Hugh... More about Some Childrens' [sic] Songs by Marion Alsop & Dorothy McCrae. Designed by Edith Alsop

London, Augener, 1911 [first edition]. With the presentation inscription (dated Christmas 1911) to Kendal, Archer and Dorothea [Kyffin Thomas] from 'Auntie Charles'. More about Our Old Nursery Rhymes. The Original Tunes Harmonized .. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair

Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1920. French text. More about Giuseppina Grassina, 1773-1850. Une Cantatrice 'Amie' de Napoleon

London, Constable, 1925. Eight tipped-in colour plates. Loosely inserted is a publisher's postcard (to subscribe to their monthly list). More about Hunting Songs illustrated in colour by Lionel EDWARDS

Paris, Rieder, 1931. French text. More about Gretry

Nashdom Abbey, Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, 1934 (first edition). More about Anglo-French Sequelae. Edited from the papers of the late Dr Henry Marriott Bannister

[Melbourne, The Author, 1935]. Tasmanian composer. This copy bears a family ownership stamp. More about 101 Original Hymns and Choruses Including 'Above the Clouds' and 'In the Glory'

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1939. With the ownership signature (dated 1948) of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More about Lessing's Dramatic Theory. Being an Introduction to and Commentary on his Hamburgische Dramaturgie

New York, G. Schirmer, Inc., 1944. The front cover of each volume is signed and dated (October 1944) by Percy Grainger, with a warm personal inscription in each case, respectively 'To dear Harry, with love from his friend Percy'; 'To dear Harry, in boundless admiration from Percy'; and 'To Harry... More about The Dolmetsch Collection of English Consorts. Eleven Fantasies, Airs, Pavans, Galliards, Almains,...

Stuttgart, Louis Renner, [1952]. With the ownership signature of Lucien Parent. Numerous plates, including two colour folding diagrams. Loosely inserted is a slightly creased Renner business card. More about 75 Jahre Louis Renner. Klaviermachaniken, Hammerkopfe, Klavierbestandteile, Reparaturen

London, Neville Spearman, 1957. More about A Walk on the Wild Side

Middleburg, Middleburg Press, 1961. Warmly inscribed, dated (10 June 1968) and signed by the author to Lucien Parent. More about A Guide to Restringing

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. More about The Letters of Thomas Moore. Volume II: 1818-1847

London, Macmillan, 1965. More about Verdi. His Music, Life and Times

New Brunswick, Rutgers, 1966. More about The British Broadside Ballad and its Music

Raleigh, University of North Carolina Press/ Chapel Hill, 1966 (revised edition)/ 1959. With the ownership signature of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More about The Sonata in the Baroque Era

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia/ University of Adelaide, 1966 and 1966. More about Aboriginal Songs of South Australia. [Contained in] Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies in...

London, Calder and Boyars, 1966. More about Playing my Part

London, Oxford University Press, 1967 (sixteenth impression)/ 1933 (revised)/ 1906. More about The English Hymnal with Tunes

New York, Dover, 1968 [facsimile edition]/ 1897. More about Franz Schubert Complete Works. Breitkopf and Hartel Critical Edition of 1884-1897. Volume 18....

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1968. Loosely inserted is an original gelatin silver portrait photograph of Sargent (140 x 90 mm), signed in ink along the wide bottom margin. The signature of the photographer, Fred Siegfried Schiffer (1917-1999), is in the bottom right-hand corner of the negative (as 'Schiffer'). Vienna-born Schiffer emigrated... More about Malcolm Sargent. A Biography

London, Oxford University Press, 1969/ 1960. The New Oxford History of Music, Volume 3. More about Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540

Broadway, Music Now, 1969. This is one of the 100 copies 'personally autographed by Australian composers, Richard Meale, Peter Sculthorpe, Nigel Butterley and George Dreyfus', as advertised for sale on the title page of this first issue. The signatures are in ink on or near the respective portraits. The Quarterly... More about Music Now. Australian Contemporary Music Quarterly. Volume 1, Number 1, February 1969

New York, Knopf, 1970. With the ownership signature of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More about The Tenth Muse. A Historical Study of the Opera Libretto