HISTOIRE DU THEATRE DE L'OPERA COMIQUE

by Jean-Augustin-Julien Desboulmiers

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Paris: Chez Lacombe, 1769. First edition. 12mo. 2 volumes: 2 , 497, 6, table ; 2 , 558, 2, table pp. Early years of the Opera-Comique, from founding about 1714 to about 1762, describing over 100 operas presented there. Contemporary mottled calf rubbed , boards framed by thin gilt triple-rule, spine richly gilt with ornaments and rules, leather title label on each volume, volume two with leather number label lacking on volume one , marbled endpapers and

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