W. A. Mozart, an early edition of "Idomeneo" and a first edition of "Zaïde"

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS

An early engraved edition of "Idomeneo" and a first edition of "Zaïde"

1) Idomeneo Rè di Creta [full score], Bonn and Paris: Simrock, [c.1806]--first edition, Haberkamp's fourth issue, 365 pages, 4to (33.1 x 24.7cm), engraved music, plate number 444, publisher's catalogue, list of characters, bookseller's label ("Chez Aug.^te Le Duc et C...."), a few later pencil annotations, manuscript label to spine, green paper-covered boards,some browning to edges,binding worn but sound [RISM M 4187]

2) Zaïde, Oper in zwei Acten [vocal score], Offenbach am Main: Johann André, [c.1831], [with additions by André], first edition, later issue, 105 pages, oblong 4to (23.3 x 32cm), lithographed music, plate number 5351, printed preface dated 1838, contemporary red half cloth, gilt lettering to spine ("Zaide v. Mozart"), title-leaf loose, spotting and browning [RISM M 4186, Hoboken, 103] 

Idomeneo, Mozart's first great opera, was published first in vocal score by Schmidt und Rau, in 1797. Zaïde, Mozart's unfinished opera from 1779-1780, was not published in score until André's (incomplete) edition of 1838 (plate number 6256). The title of the opera, famously, is Andre's own.