Sheet Music
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# 22282
MARSH, Henry (1824 - c. 1885); ANGAS, George French (1822-1886)
[SHEET MUSIC; SYDNEY]. The Anniversary Polka. Composed & dedicated to the Committee of Management of the Anniversary Regatta.
Sydney : H. Marsh & Co. [1853]. Printed by J. Allan. Folio, lithographed cover by George French Angas, with a signed vignette of the Regatta entering Sydney Heads, above which is a banner ADVANCE AUSTRALIA and a coat of arms enclosing a vignette of a youthful Queen Victoria, light foxing, paper reinforcement to spine, 4 …
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# 21437
BONHEUR, Theo
[SHEET MUSIC] An Atlantic trip : descriptive fantasia for piano
London : W. Paxton & Co. Ltd. 95 New Oxford Street, [c.1910]. Folio, original illustrated covers with a superb design featuring of a four-funnel ocean liner, probably depicting the Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania, the largest ship afloat at the time (she also held the record for the fastest Transatlantic crossing, in both directions); 7 pages of …
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# 21431
HARBACH, Otto (lyrics); HIRSCH, Louis A. (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Selection from Going Up
Cover: J.C. Williamson Ltd. present the musical play Going up / book by Otto Harbach and James Montgomery ; lyrics by Otto Harbach ; music by Louis A. Hirsch … New York : M. Witmark & Sons ; Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [1919]. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers with splendid illustration of an aviatrix flying …
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# 21415
DOORLY, Gerald S.
The songs of the “Morning” : compiled and composed by Captain Gerald S. Doorly, one time Third Executive Officer, S.Y. Morning.
Melbourne : Bread and Cheese Club, 1943. Quarto, original grey printed wrappers, staple bound, photographic frontispiece of the ship ‘Morning’ in McMurdo Sound (National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904), pp. 18, [14] pages of music notation, 1 full-page comic illustration, ‘Dissecting the piano’; introduction by R.H. Croll providing historical background; ownership inscription to title page, else a …
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# 20894
TOMLYN, Alfred W.
The children’s song book
With coloured illustrations. Edinburgh : Andersons, circa 1905. Quarto, patterned padded cloth, unpaginated, sheet music and colour illustrations. Popular songs of the day, including ‘Ten little nigger boys’; ‘Hey diddle diddle’, ‘Rub-a-dub-dub’, ‘Wee willie winkie’ and ‘I love little pussy’.
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# 19795
BROWN, Seymour (words); AYER, Nat D. (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Oh, you beautiful doll.
Cover: “Sung with great success by Gene Greene”. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide : Stanley Mullen, [1905]. “Mullen’s popular sixpenny edition”. Folio, cloth backed illustrated wrappers, front cover with inset portrait of Gene Greene and original owner’s inscription ‘Roland Thomas 1911’; [3] pp of music notation, plus [3] pp advertisements for Mullen’s; original label and wet stamps …
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# 19310
ROMA, Caro (words and music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Don’t you mind it, honey
Cover: “Miss Nella Webb’s Artistic Triumph” / “A Southern heart song”. Sydney : Albert & Son, [c.1906]. Folio, pictorial wrappers, portrait of Miss Nella Webb to front (bottom edge of upper wrapper a little roughened), [3] pp of music notation, arrangement for voice and piano, lower wrapper with advertisement; a very good copy. Two copies are …
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# 19309
BREEN, Harry J. (words and music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Honey.
Cover: “The Celebrated 1000 Dollar Prize Winner, awarded by the New York Journal” / “Introduced & sung with tremendous success by the American baritone Post Mason.” Sydney : Albert & Son, [c.1903]. “Albert’s 6d pops, no. 104.” Folio, pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper with portrait of singer Post Mason, original owner’s inscription ‘Mr. R Thomas’ and …
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# 19393
MILLS, Kerry (music); SHIELDS, Ren (words)
[SHEET MUSIC] The longest way ’round is the sweetest way home.
Cover: “The great phonograph song success. Sung by Will Oakland on Edison Record No. 145.” Sydney : Albert & Son, [c.1908]. “Albert’s 6d pops, no. 261.” Folio, pictorial wrappers, original owner’s inscription ‘Roland Thomas’, [3] pp of music notation, arrangement for voice and piano; lower wrapper with advertisements; first leaf of score with vertical gutter crease …
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# 18696
WILLIAMS, W.R. (words and music)
[SHEET MUSIC] I’d love to live in loveland with a girl like you
Cover: “Featured with immense success by Maude Terry in J.C. Williamson’s spectacular pantomime “Forty Thieves””. Sydney : Albert & Son, [c.1912]. Folio, pictorial wrappers with cloth backstrip, portrait of Maude Terry to front (original owner’s inscription ‘Roland Thomas, Port Melbourne’ and label and wet stamp of Turner’s Music Stores, Melbourne), [4] pp of music notation, arrangement …
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# 18695
ARMSTRONG, Tom (words and music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Just as the church bells chime
Cover: “Sets of American lantern slides may be obtained for this song”. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [c.1910]. “Dinsdale’s Popular 6d. edition, no. 147”. Folio, pictorial wrappers, [4] pp of music notation, advertisment on rear wrapper for ‘Dinsdale’s List of Popular Music Successes’; a fine copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections.
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# 18694
McALISTER, Ward (words); SLATER, Joe (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Just a bunch of shamrock
Cover: “A song that touches every Irish heart”. Sydney : Tivoli Music Co. [imprint pasted over with “Sutton’s sixpenny edition” label], [c.1909]. “Price two shillings”. Folio, pictorial wrappers with cloth backstrip (original owner’s inscription of R. Thomas to front), 3 pp music notation, arrangement for voice and piano; a fine copy. Appears completely unrecorded in …
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# 18693
MORLEY, Arthur (words); CAMERON, Rodger (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] I am the demon king
Cover: “Sung by Charles Howard in J.C. Williamson’s pantomime “Humpty Dumpty””. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [c.1909]. One shilling edition. Folio, pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Charles Howard (original owner’s inscription of Mr. R. Thomas to front), 3 pp music notation, arrangement for voice and piano; rear cover with music for …
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# 18682
ZOO, T. Z.
Songs of Cathay. An anthology of songs current in various parts of China among her people.
Shanghai : Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1931. 5th impression. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. 58; with music notation and lyrics.
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# 18428
GILBERT, M. [Gabriel] (c. 1620 - 1680)
Cinquante pseaumes de David,
mis en vers François. Amsterdam : Abraham Wolfgang, 1681. Seconde édition, reveue & corrigée sur les mémoires de l’auteur après sa mort & augmentee du decalogue & du Cantique de Simeon. Duodecimo, full polished calf, ruled in gilt, spine with gilt-lettered morocco title label and Royal armorial crest, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers with owner’s label Wekerlin, …
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# 18552
LESLIE, Edgar (words); PIANTADOSI, Al (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Won’t you even say hello?
Cover: “Sung artistically by Manuel Romain on Edison Record no. 10118”. Sydney : D. Davis & Co., [1908]. “Davis’ Popular Sixpenny Edition”. Folio, pictorial wrappers (original owner’s inscription of Mr. Roland Thomas, Port Melbourne, to front), 3 pp musical notation, arrangement for voice and piano; rear cover with music for Beautiful Eyes by Whiting, de …