Lot 4: BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN.

JOH. SEB. BACH'S MOTETTEN IN PARTITUR ERSTER [...ZWEITES] HEFT [SCORE], LEIPZIG: BEY BREITKOPF UND HÄRTEL [1802-1803]

first edition of the motets bwv 225-229 and anh. iii 159, 2 volumes in one, 48 and 50 pages, folio (33.5 x 25.5cm), type-set music, modern paper-covered boards, two small holes on title of first volume repaired, some light spotting, pp.47/48 of first volume misbound

LITERATURE

RISM B 447; BWV, pp.367ff.

NOTE

The first edition of some of Bach's finest choral works, including the great Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225.