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

New York, G. Schirmer, 1925/ 1897. Vocal score. Text in English and German. English version by Rev. J. Troutbeck, DD, and Dr Theo. Baker. With the contemporary bookseller stamp of Allan's, 278 Collins Street, Melbourne. More about The Flying Dutchman. Der Fliegende Hollander. A Romantic Opera in Three Acts. Music by

New York, G. Schirmer, 1932/ 1903. Vocal score. Text in English and German. English translation by Frederick Jameson. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow, and inscribed 'University of Adelaide, 28 February 1970 (bought in Melbourne). More about The Mastersingers of Nuremburg. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. An Opera in Three Acts. Music by

[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

Adelaide, LBSA, 1966. More about Aboriginal Songs of South Australia. (Reprinted from) Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies...

London, Dent, (1966). With the ownership signature of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More about Rhythm in Seventeenth Century Italian Monody. With an Anthology of Songs and Dances

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966. More about Aboriginal Songs of South Australia. [Reprinted from] Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies...

New York, Studio/ Viking Press, 1966. With the ownership signature of Lucien Parent. More about European and American Musical Instruments

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia in association with the University of Adelaide, 1966. Together with an offprint of one of the contributions, 'Puritan Attitudes to Music. A Study in History and Ideas' by Professor Heinz Kent. More about Miscellanea Musicologica. Adelaide Studies in Musicology. Vol. 1

London, Andre Deutsch, 1968. More about Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy

London, Oxford University Press, 1968/ 1968. The New Oxford History of Music, Volume 4. More about The Age of Humanism, 1540-1630

New York, W.W. Norton, 1969. Inscribed and signed by the editor. 'Includes complete study-size orchestral scores of eight major nineteenth-century symphonies'. More about The Symphony, 1800-1900. A Norton Music Anthology

New York, Da Capo Press, 1969/ 1890. With the ownership signature of Lucien Parent. The 9 page introduction by Rita Benton is new to this edition. More about History of the American Pianoforte. Its Technical Developments and the Trade

London, Duckworth, 1970. More about Smetana

London, Oxford University Press, 1970. More about Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments. Edited on the basis of the edition of Osborn Waterhouse by Norman...

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1971. The detailed four-colour map of Aboriginal Central Australia is based on information from Strehlow's field note books, 1932-1969; an extensive index is printed on the verso. 'The first complete account of the poetic heritage of the aboriginal people of Central Australia; an analysis of aboriginal... More about Songs of Central Australia