Music and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

Music and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 60. [C.M. v. Weber] [C.F. Rungenhagen]. Nachrichten aus dem Leben...Weber's, 1826, once owned by Weber's goddaughter.

[C.M. v. Weber] [C.F. Rungenhagen]. Nachrichten aus dem Leben...Weber's, 1826, once owned by Weber's goddaughter

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November 30, 03:00 PM GMT

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[Weber, Carl Maria von] [Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen]


Nachrichten aus dem Leben und über die Musik-Werke Carl Maria von Weber's, mit dem sehr ähnlichen Bildnisse desselben, Berlin: T. Trautwein, 1826


8 pages, folio (33 x 26cm), lithographed frontispiece portrait by Eichens after Vogel, ownership inscription by Ernst Rudorff to upper wrapper ("Geschenk von Tante M. Hoffmeister Wienrode d. 25ten April 1889"), nineteenth-century wrappers, portrait leaf detached and trimmed on inner and outer edges, spotting


A very attractive association item, once belonging to the goddaughter of Weber, Marie Lichtenstein (1817-1890), née Hoffmeister, who presented it to her erstwhile piano pupil and godson Ernst Rudorff in the year before her death.