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Trento: Fondazione Biblioteca S. Bernardino. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Boards. 494 pp. With illustrative plates and an accompanying CD. In dustjacket.

Photograph 7-15/16" x 6" (202 x 152 mm.); album leaf 5-1/2" x 8-1/16" (140 x 205 mm.). From the Mishkin studio in New York, with his copyright to lower outer corner. Both items laid down to mounting sheet at corners of verso. Johanna Gadski was a prominent German soprano. "Between 1900 and 1917, however, her main centre was the Metropolitan, with whose company (after a previous appearance as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser on tour in Philadelphia) she made her house début on 6 January 1900 as Senta; she became one of its most valuable Brünnhildes and Isoldes, excelling also in many Verdi roles such as Aida, Leonora (Il trovatore) and Amelia... From 1929 until her death (in a car accident) she was active and successful in a Wagnerian touring company in the USA organized at first by Sol Hurok and then by herself. She sang even the heaviest Wagner roles with unfailing beauty of voice and purity of style, and showed the same qualities in her Italian parts. Her powers are well documented in the large number… Read More

Milano: [Printed by Guillermus Le Signerre for Johannes Petrus de Lomatio], 1496. Quarto (ca. 265 x 185 mm). Full modern ivory pigskin with central blindstamped decorative device and cornerpieces within double-ruled and decoratively blindstamped borders, raised bands on spine with titling gilt and decorative devices to head and foot. 1f. (recto title, verso register of signatures), [i] (blank), [ii] (contents of the four books), [iii] (dedication to Louis Mary Sforza, duke of the Milanese, and 22-line poem on the cosmic characteristics of the modes by Lucinus Conagi) (= 4ff.) Liber Primus: a1-b8, c1-6 (= 22ff.) Liber Secundus: aa1-bb8, cc5 (= 21ff.) Liber Tertius: cc6-8, dd1-ee5 (= 16ff.) Liber Quartus: ee6-8, ff1-kk8, ll1-5 (= 48ff.), 1f. (blank). 112 leaves in total, including final blank. 38 long lines to the full page. With colophon to verso of final leaf. The fine woodcut title illustrates the different measures and the Muses and their corresponding signs of the Zodiac. It… Read More

1864. Full-length portrait in the title role of Louis-Aimé Maillart's Lara. Ca. 107 x 64 mm. Slightly worn, soiled and browned, with manuscript identification to verso. "[Galli-Marié] first appeared at the Opéra-Comique to considerable acclaim as Serpina in Pergolesi's La serva padrona (1862) and sang there regularly until 1885, creating the title roles of Mignon (1866) and Carmen (1875), as well as singing in works by Gevaert, Guiraud, Maillart, Massé and Massenet. Though principally associated with the Opéra-Comique, she toured in France and Europe, singing in the Italian première of Carmen at Naples and performing in London with a French company at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1886, as well as in Spain. With her return to the Opéra-Comique as Carmen in 1883 the work finally achieved the success in Paris it had enjoyed elsewhere in Europe." Harold Rosenthal and Karen Henson in Grove Music Online.

1864. Full-length portrait, seated, in the title role of Louis-Aimé Maillart's Lara. Ca. 106 x 64 mm. Slightly worn, soiled and stained, with manuscript identification to lower blank margin. "[Galli-Marié] first appeared at the Opéra-Comique to considerable acclaim as Serpina in Pergolesi's La serva padrona (1862) and sang there regularly until 1885, creating the title roles of Mignon (1866) and Carmen (1875), as well as singing in works by Gevaert, Guiraud, Maillart, Massé and Massenet. Though principally associated with the Opéra-Comique, she toured in France and Europe, singing in the Italian première of Carmen at Naples and performing in London with a French company at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1886, as well as in Spain. With her return to the Opéra-Comique as Carmen in 1883 the work finally achieved the success in Paris it had enjoyed elsewhere in Europe." Harold Rosenthal and Karen Henson in Grove Music Online.

Krakow: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. Wrappers. 32 ff.

Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 288 pp. With numerous musical examples. From the collection of musicologist Stanley Boorman.

[Milano]: Ricordi, 1986. Three volumes. Oblong folio. Original publisher's full yellow cloth with titling to upper board and spine. Volume I: 1f. (recto series title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement), 1f. (recto illustration, verso blank), 1f. (recto title for article "L'Italiana in Pechino" by Helen Geyer-Kiefl, verso blank), ix-xxxii (article), xxxiii-ccciv (appendices i-xvii), 1f. (recto title to libretto, verso blank), cccvii-cccxxvii (libretto), [i] (blank), 1f. (recto contents, verso colophon) pp. Volume II: 1f. (recto series title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement), 1f. (recto illustration, verso blank), 1f. (recto title to music, verso citation), 1f. (recto reproduction upper wrapper, verso blank), 5 (reproduction manuscript title), 6-357 (Act I), [i] (blank), 1f. (recto illustration, verso blank), 1f. (recto contents, verso colophon) pp. Volume III: 1f. (recto series title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement),… Read More

[London]: W. Richardson, 1795. 170 x 129 mm. Half-length. Text below print reads "This to the Graver owes; But read and Fine By his own hand, A most harmonious Mind. From a scarce Print in the possession of Mr. Wm. Simonds Higgs, Reading." Browned; trimmed to within platemark, just affecting two letters of text; lower right corner slightly abraided. A later version of a previously-published portrait. Gamble was a 17th century English cornett player, violinist, copyist and composer.

New York: Haworth Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. 144 pp. Ex-library.

In black ink on ivory paper, ca. 64 x 103 mm. Laid down to ivory mounting paper. Quotation comprising the first five measures of the vocal part from Ganz's song "Sing Birdie Sing," notated on one staff, in 6/8 time, in A major. Marked "Allegro vivo." With text underlay in English ("Sing birdie sing and let thy song be of this earth"). Some light creasing and foxing; minor staining from remnants of adhesive to upper edge, not affecting music or signature. Ganz was a noted organist, violinist, conductor, and composer. Born in Mainz, he settled permanently in London in 1851. "In 1856 Ganz was an accompanist on Jenny Lind's tour of England and Scotland, and for some years thereafter he accompanied many of the leading singers in London. He was also the organist at the German Lutheran church in the Strand. Ganz joined Henry Wylde's New Philharmonic Society as second violinist in 1852. In 1874 he became joint conductor of the society (with Wylde) and in 1879, on Wylde's resignation, continued the… Read More

[Milan]: Teatro alla Scala / Electa, 1975. Large octavo. 180 pp. In dustjacket. Ex-library, with stamps.

Parigi: L'Auteur [PN 151], 1811. Folio (33 x 26 cm). Half dark red morocco with red textured paper boards, yellow edges. 1f. (recto pictorial title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (publisher's catalogue) [2]-5 (list of subscribers), 6-16 (descriptive contents, foreword, etc.), [i] (blank), 16-285, [i] (blank) pp. Parallel text in French and Italian. Engraved. With large engraving to head of title depicting a musical scene in which a gentleman plays the piano while two women sing; a young girl looks on, with other women and girls engaged in drawing and sewing in the background, with volumes of music by Clementi, Cramer, Dussek, etc., in the foreground. The subscribers list includes the composers Boieldieu, Cherubini, Paer, Rossini, and Spontini and the singers Pasta and Rubini. Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped; endpapers stained at corners. Light uniform browning; some foxing; title slightly worn, foxed, browned, and soiled, with composer's facsimile signature… Read More

México: Ediciones Framong, 1966. Softcover. Good. Small quarto. Dark yellow illustrated wrappers printed in red and black. 291 pp. With numerous bust-length portraits of composers. Wrappers worn. Ex-library, with labels to upper wrapper and free front endpaper.

Sheet size 225 x 164 mm. The subject is depicted in profile. Born in Scotland, Garden arrived in the U.S. in 1883 and subsequently became a leading operatic soprano, performing in the great opera houses of both Europe and America. Geritz emigrated to the U.S. from Hungary in 1909. He was active as a printmaker and painter, initially in Chicago and from ca. 1921 in California, where he was a member of the prestigious California Society of Etchers and the California Printmakers. Exhibitions of his works were held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the 1920s as well as at the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian.

Genève: Minkoff Reprint, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 608 pp. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1822.

Genève: Minkoff Reprint, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong octavo. 322; 318 columns. Facsimile reprint of the 1819-20 edition.

London: Macmillan, 1923. 232 pp. Head and tail of spine slightly worn; endpapers browned and foxed. Inscription to front free endpaper.

On an album leaf 5.5" x 8" (140 x 204 mm.): I am very happy to add mine to your collection of autographs." Autograph laid down to mounting sheet at corners of verso; photograph slightly worn, with remnants of adhesive to verso. "[Garrison] joined the Metropolitan Opera... making her official début as Frasquita in Carmen in November 1914. She only attracted real attention, however, when she substituted at short notice for Raymonde Delaunois as Urbain in Les Huguenots the following month. Similarly, she made a fine impression two years later when she replaced Frieda Hempel as the Queen of Night, and she scored her greatest success as the Queen of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, covering for Maria Barrientos, in 1918." Philip L. Miller in Grove Music Online. Herman Mishkin (1870-1948) served as the Metropolitan Opera's official portraitist from 1908-1932, producing an important body of work documenting "The Golden Age of Opera.

Dated 1815 in the stone. 240 x 146 mm. plus wide margins. A fine impression on wove paper. Very slightly worn. Small circular unidentified collector's stamp "N.B." to verso. Published in the series "Portraite beruhmtesten Compositeurs der Tonkunst," 1815-1821. Gassman, a Bohemian composer and conductor, succeeded Gluck as composer of ballets in Vienna.