Fine printed and manuscript music : Autograph letter by Monteverdi, 1630; four autograph manuscripts by Schumann, including ‘Spanisches Liederspiel’ Op.74, Märchenbilder Op.113, and songs from ‘Liederkreis’ Op.24 and ‘Myrthen’ Op.25; J.C. Bach, an autograph manuscript of an aria for ‘Orfeo’, c. 1770; the autograph manuscript of Offenbach’s opera ‘I’Ile de Tulipatan’ [L’Ile de Tulipatan]; the autograph manuscript of Honegger’s opera ‘Judith’; musical manuscripts by Copeland, Berlioz, Gershwin, Janacek, Liszt, Spontini and Sullivan; autograph letters by Haydn and Schubert and important series by Schoenberg, Puccini and Diaghilev; early editions of music by Marenzio, Purcell, Handel, Mozart, J.C. Bach and others and a collection of early engraved portraits of composers from Lassus to Beethoven (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1998)