Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 197

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MISSOURI.) Draper, G.H. St. Louis Grand March, Composed and Respectfully Dedicated to the St. Louis Greys. 2 facing pages, 13 1/2 x 10 inches, on one folding sheet, in a modern cloth binding with several blank leaves; moderate foxing; early owner's pencil signature on verso. [St. Louis, MO]: Nathaniel Phillips, 1839
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first edition of the first piece of music published west of the Mississippi. Illustrated with a lithograph view of a military camp by Robert Cooke. "This is the first recorded piece of Missouri music, or for that matter of any printed west of the Mississippi"--Streeter sale VII:4190 (the only copy traced at auction). Krohn, Music Publishing in St. Louis, 15-18; Missouri Imprints 241 (no copies found). Only two institutional copies have been traced.