Small archive consisting of an autograph musical quotation from the composer's grand opera, L'Africaine; an autograph letter; and a total of 8 engraved and lithographic portraits
$3,200 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
Bound in half dark brown leather with marbled boards, Meyerbeer gilt to spine, marbled endpapers.Autograph musical quotation13 measures of the aria for baritone 'Adamastor, roi des vagues profondes' from Act III of the composer's opera, L'Africaine. On ivory paper within decoratively-ruled borders laid down to olive green paper with printed identification below autograph. With small 85 x 72 mm. half-length engraved portrait laid down above quotation. As
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