Judas Macchabaeus an Oratorio in Score As it was Originally Perform'd Compos'd

by Mr. Handel with His Additional Alterations. Hwv 53 . Full score by George Frideric Handel

$3,000 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Tall folio. Half dark brown calf with brown cloth boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt with titling gilt. 1f. recto blank, verso fine engraved half-length portrait of Handel by J. Houbraken incorporating a violin and bow, horns, sheet music, and an illustration of musicians in Greco-Roman dress playing harp, aulos, lyre, and triangle, serenading a king and queen , 1f. recto title, verso blank , 1f. list of subscribers , 1f. recto index, verso blank , 208 pp. List of subscribers

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