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'Descrittione geografica del contado Leopontico nel modo che si trova di presente con l'espressione delle sue anticaglie contestate da più celebri historici', [by] Giovanni Righolo; engraved by Cesare Laurentio. Printed map in a display mount (39.5 cm x 28.5 cm; mount 68.5 cm x 50.5 cm).

Contains: 'Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Organ composed by Mr Handel'; 'A Second Set of Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Organ composed by Mr Handel'; 'Six Concertos set for the Harpsichord or Organ compos'd by Signor Giovanni Adolffo Hasse'; 'Six Overtures fitted to the Harpsichord or Spinnet... being proper pieces for the improvement of ye hand' (London: I. Walsh). Hardbound in one volume, containing brief annotations. Two sheets are tipped in at the front, one printed and one MS in an unknown hand (possibly eighteenth-century), of verses of drinking songs. The MS verse begins 'Upbraid me not, capricious fair' and has been suggested to be by the seventeenth-century poet Alexander Brome; Henry Festing Jones set the words to music. The printed verse, 'Punch the Medium of Life', is by the eighteenth-century composer Thomas Arne.

Bound volume containing: 'Handel's Celebrated Coronation Anthem set for the Voice and Harpsichord in a manner never before printed' (London: William Randall, [1775]); 'Songs in the Mask Acis and Galatea'; 'Songs in Esther' ([Walsh, 1732?]); 'The Songs, Duet & Trio with the Overture in the Masque of Comus set for the Violin German Flute and Harpsichord Composed by Dr. Arne' (London: Henry Thorowgood, [c.1765?]); 'The Black Birds: A Cantata set to music by Mr Isaac' (London: J. Johnson, [1760]). A concert programme for the Wimbledon Music Society's performance of Handel's 'Jephtha' on 7 February 1884 is inserted at the front of the volume.

Print of an engraving by J.K. Sherwin, after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 'Published by Thos. Macklin, 1 June 1786, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street [London]'.

Print of an engraving by Peter Simon, after the painting by Thomas Gainsborough. 'Engraved from the original Picture in the Collection of the Right Hon'ble the Earl of Gainsborough. Publish'd Augt. 1. 1791 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall London.'

'Selected, Adapted & Arranged from the original Scores with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte... by John Clarke'. Hardbound. Inscribed 'S. Butler'. Contains pencil annotations by Samuel Butler.

'Adapted for the Organ or Piano Forte by Wm. Crotch (No.19.)'. Hardbound. Contains brief pencil annotations by Samuel Butler.

'Bach's Chorales'. Hardbound. Contains pencil annotations by Samuel Butler.

'A new edition, with an accompaniment for the pianoforte or organ, arranged by John Bishop'. Hardbound. Contains brief pencil annotations by Samuel Butler.

Portfolio in landscape format, containing unbound printed sheet music by Handel and others. Includes: 'Six Fugues Composees par G.F. Handel' (Paris: Richault, [c.1830]); 'Libro de VI Sonatas Modernas para Clavicordio Compuestas por el Senor D. Domingo Scarlatti Caballero del Orden de Santiago y Maestro de los Reyes Catholicos D. Fernando el VI y Dona Maria Barbara, Libro VI' (London: John Welcker, [1775?]); 'Trois Fugues pour le Pianoforte ou l'Orgue par Dominique et Alexandre Scarlatti' (Vienne: A. Diabelli, [1823?]); 'John Sebastian Bach's Grand Studies for the Organ, with Pedal Obligato, consisting of Preludes, Fugues, Toccatas, and Fantasias' (J. Alfred Novello, [c.1850]); 'Johann Sebastian Bach's noch wenig bekannte Orgelcompositionen... Gesammelt und herausgegeben von Adolph Bernhard Marx' (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, [1833]).