Lot 193
  • 193

Italian opera.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Collection of first and early editions of 14 operas by Mercadante, Pacini and others.
  • paper
including engraved vocal scores by Mercadante: Il giuramento, Elena da Feltre, La Vestale, Gabriella di Vergy, Il bravo, and separate numbers from Il vascello de Gama (14 numbers), Il reggente (7), Violetta (4) Il proscritto (4), Leonora (4), Le due illustre rivali--Giovanni Pacini: L'ultimo giorno di Pompei, La fidanzata corsa, and separate numbers from Maria Regina d'Inghilterra (11 numbers) and Medea (9)--together with volumes of arias by Donizetti, Pacini, Luigi Ricci and De Giosa



c.15 volumes in all, engraved music throughout, contemporary red roan-backed boards, or original publishers' printed wrappers, mainly Milan (G. Ricordi) and Naples (B. Girard), 1820s-1840s



 

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Catalogue Note

please see illustration on page 85.