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Catalogue of books, drawings, prints and music relating to the ballet and dancing, comprising printed books, including Feuillet's "Choreography" and "Receuil de Danses", 1700-1701, a complete set of La Cuisse's "Repertoire des Bals", 1762-63, a fine extra-ilustrated copy of Grimaldi's "Memoirs", 1838, Alexandre and Cocteau's "L'Art Decoratif de Léon Bakst", and other books on ballets, dancers, designers and choreographers, scrapbooks compiled by the late W.B. Morris, including the Ballet Jooss, Ballets Russes, Comedia dell'Arte, Isadora Duncan, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Pavlova, Rachel and Ellen Terry, a collection of books and letters relating to Isadora Duncan, periodicals, programmes and souvenirs, the autograph score of Stravinsky's "Le Chant du Rossignol" and music from the library of Anna Pavlova, contracts of Serge De Diaghilev, drawings of Isadora Duncan by Valentine Lecomte, water-colours of "The Sleeping Princess" by Randolph Schwabe, a water-colour design by Rex Whistler, and other drawings of ballets and dancers, prints of dancers and dances of the 17th to 19th century, including Bouvier's "The celebrated Pas des Déeses", 1846, Levasseur's "Sketches from the King's Theatre (c.1832), and Maguire's "The celebrated Pas de Quatre", 1845 [comprising the property of Dame Marie Rambert, the property of the Diagghilev and De Basil Ballets Foundation Ltd. (sold by order of the trustees), the property of the late W.B. Morris, Esq., the property of Mrs. E.G. Haldane, the property of Mrs. J. Burt] [veiling 1968-07-16, London, Sotheby & Co.]

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