2049 - 2129 MUSIC and PERFORMING ARTS
- Trifle foxed. A good/ fine copy.
AND 1 other: F.H.L. TIEDEMAN, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, bio-bibliografische schets (Amst., 1876, 96p., early 20th cent. hcl.).
- Sl. foxed. Second vol. backcover sl. dam. along lower margin.
Maandblad voor Muziek, tevens Orgaan der "Wagner-vereeniging" te Amsterdam. Ed. H. Viotta. Year 1-5 (all publ.). Amst., Erven H. van Munster, 1888-1894, 5 years in 2 vols., music examples, contemp. unif. gilt red hmor., t.e.g.
- Occas. trifle foxed. A very fine set.
AND 1 other: LE GUIDE MUSICAL. Revue hebdomadaire des nouvelles musical de la Belgique et de l'étranger. Year 28, 30 and 31 (Brussels etc., 1882-1885, 3 vols., contemp. unif. gilt calf, large 4to. Backstrips and corners sl. worn and leather dried).
- Sl. foxed (only affecting the margins of the plates); upper hinge strengthened w. tape; final lvs. sl. waterst. in margin. Spine pasted over w. tape; worn at edges.
= Rare songbook with nice accomp. plates. Songs include i.a. Le roi de la fève; Adieu, Suzon!; Elle ne m'aime pas!; Une voix dans la nuit; Les trois compagnons and Le printemps est venu.
- Partly sl. waterst. in inner margin; occas. sl. foxed; hinges weak. Backstrip and extremities sl. worn; spine-ends repaired; covers sl. discoloured/ stained.
= Rare collection of 12 popular songs written by J.P. Heije, i.a. Herinnering, Des visschers dochtertjen, Oogspiegel en Stroomvaart.
- Contents loose; occas. (sl.) foxed. Spine splitting (repaired w. tape); extremities sl. worn.
= Includes songs i.a. by A. LINCELLE: C'était ma soeur, Reconnais-moi, La bonne vierge and La bonne aventure.
Labarre, Th. Album. Paris, Bureau Central de Musique, 1844, lithogr. title and 10 plates by F. SORRIEU, scores for 9 songs, richtly gilt moroccobacked boards, 4to.
- Foxed; lvs. strengthened/ repaired w. (sello)tape. Joints splitting; extremities worn.
= Includes songs i.a. by A. GOURDIN: Le moulin, Le chant du Bravo, Je la hais and La fille du soldat.
AND 3 other songbooks by R. MAZEL, E. PACINI and F. MASINI.
- Songs occas. (sl.) foxed/ frayed (some repaired); frontwr. mostly w. stamp(s); occas. sl. stained/ soiled.
= A large and interesting collection of 19th-century songs, most of which are now rarely performed but were very popular at the time. Some names and titles: E. ARNAUD, Sois jaloux!; G. BANEUX, Les voeux; P. BERNARD, Le singe et le perroquet; G. BIZET, Carmen. Habanera; L. BORDÈSE, Les femmes de la bible; L. CLAPISSON, Le postillon; J. COSTÉ, Les horreurs de la guerre; P. HENRION, Jirai plus jamais à la noce; E. LHUILLIER, Les rêves dun anglais; G. MEYERBEER, Le chant du dimanche; G. NADAUD, Voilà pourquoi je suis garçon and L. PUGET, Giselle. This lot also includes a few English and German popular songs.
- Sl. foxed in blank margins.
= Rare portrait of the promising Dutch tenor (1827-1855), who died before having reached his peak at the age of 28. He was apparently somewhat of a prodigy, and became the protégé of the director of the Dutch Royal school of music. He soon became one of the promising musicians of the "Maatschappij van Toonkunst". The portrait comes with a commemorative publication, in orig. green wrappers, titled "Herinnering aan Karel Willem vom Rath" and containing a 2p. biography, a eulogy (1p.) and a 2p. commemorative poem by Willem J.N.H. van den Bergh. Strangely enough Carl Wilhelm vom Rath cannot be traced in any of the major biographical or music dictionaries.
- Title-p. sl. foxed. Binding worn along extremities; spine-ends dam.
= Title edition of the first edition of this piano adaptation.
Meyerbeer, G. Le Prophète. Paris etc., Brundus & Cie, Troupenas & Cie. a.o., n.d. (±1849), 2nd enl. ed., (2) textp., 442p., lithogr. title-p. and score, contemp. giltlettered green hmor., folio.
- Lithogr. title loose; textp. foxed; most leaves w. waterstain in upper margin affecting the uppermost bar.
AND 1 other: P. VON WINTER, Das unterbrochene Opferfest. Piano adaptation by ? (Braunschw., n.d. (1832), plate no.207, lithogr. frontisp. portrait, title and score, contemp. hcalf w. gilt green letterpiece on frontcover, obl. 8vo. Vaguely dampstained in lower and inner margins; upper joint starting).
- Sl. foxed. = Rare catalogue, listing 1145 intruments.
- Bookblock of both vols. almost loose.
= Braches 1298-1300 and 1303.
AND ±50 other (music) programs, brochures etc., ±1900-1940, mainly Dutch, partly w. nice art nouveau wr. design (incl. duplicates).
= I.a. programs by De Amsterdamsche Kunstkring "Voor Allen" (in 5 variant wrappers, i.a. 2 diff. designs by N.J. v.d. Vecht), Chr. Oratorium Ver. Amsterdam (Feestuitvoering 20-jarig bestaan, 1905, wr. by Jan Visser), Rembrandt Theater (3 variants), Stadschouwburg Amsterdam (wr. by N. Schrier), Académie Nationale de Musique et de Danse (3 variants) and 2 diff. programs by Paleis voor Volksvlijt.
- About one third of the plates foxed, otherwise trifle foxed or fine.
= On this important manual for actors, based on a series of 38 lessons that the painter and leading Dutch actor of his time Johannes Jelgerhuis gave during the years 1824 to 1827, see at large the exhibition catalogue Johannes Jelgerhuis Rzn. Acteur-schilder 1770-1836 (1969), p.44-52 and cat. no. 406 (listing only 274 textp. and 79 plates).
- Without vol. 21, 30, 36 and 39. Extremities sl. worn; contents fine (besides a few contemp. annots.). Good/ fine set.
= An attractively bound, almost continuous, set of almanacs of the Parisian theatre companies (i.a. Académie royale de musique, Opéra-Comique and Comédie-Française). For each theatre, new plays performed during the year, names of the actors, dramatists and musicians in the ensembles, summaries/ excerpts of the plays and anecdotes related to the theatres are listed. From 1792 on, the almanac also includes information about provincial theatres (i.a. in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Nantes). From the library of the 19th-cent. French dramatist Paul Duport (his owner's entry on first free endpaper/ blank of each vol.).
= Very fine copy with a bound-in dedicatory note signed "Frédéric Hillemacher" to "Monsieuir Wekerlin".
BOUND WITH: a section extracted from MILLIN, Les antiquités nationales (...) Section de la rue Beau-Bourg (chapter XLI): Chapelle de S. Julien-des-Menestriers (18p., 2 engr. plates. Both plates sl. waterstained). Préludes historiques sur la Ghilde des Ménestrels de Bruges, suivis de la légende d'une sainte chandelle. Ed. D. van de Casteele. Bruges, Vandecasteele-Werbrouck, 1868, 1st ed., (2),95p., 3 lithogr. plates (1x col.), later hcl. Maitres de chant et organistes de Saint-Donatien et de Saint-Sauveur à Bruges. Ed. D. vande Casteele and E. van der Straeten. Ibid., idem, 1870, 77p., woodengr. title-vignette, later hcl. unif. w. the preceding. - AND 3 others, i.a. A. GENTY (ed.), Chansons sur la régence. Trois chansons attribuées au régent (Paris, 1861, printed in 355 copies, sl. later hcl., sm. 8vo) and M. FÜRSTENAU, Zur Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe der Kurfürsten von Sachsen, Johann Georg II., Johann Georg III. und Johann Georg IV. (Dresden, 1861/ 1862, 2 parts in 1 vol., fold. plate and fold. table, contemp. boards. Contents partly foxed; binding sl. worn along extremities).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Foxed (esp. in first half); final 50p. dampstained in outer corners/ right half; margins of several leaves strengthened/ repaired.
Capet, L. La Technique Supérieure de l'Archet. Paris, M. Senart et Cie, 1916, 1st ed., 144p., text printed within decorated border in red, num. music examples, contemp. clothbacked boards w. orig. frontwr. laid down, folio (fine).
- Sl./ trifle foxed. Orig. wrappers loosely inserted. = Very rare.
- Fine copy.
= Issued 'to perpetuate the memory' of the exhibition held in 1937 on occasion of the bicentennial of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Partly sl. foxed. Backwr. stain in margin.
- Sl. foxed.
BOUND before: Idem. Les instruments à l'archet à l'exposition universelle de 1867. Paris, Jouaust, 1867, (4),57,(1)p. (fine). Sibire, l'abbé. La Chelonomie ou le parfait luthier. Brussels, A. Loosfelt, 1885, (4),11,(1),VI,227,(2)p., engr. frontisp., contemp. giltlettered hmor., orig. wr. pres.
- Frontisp. and title-p. foxed.
= Third edition (the first edition was published in Paris in 1806 and the second in Brussels in 1823). No copy of any of the editions traced on the market and, as the introductory note to the third edition states: "L'édition de 1823 (...) est aujourd'hui aussi rare que la première." According to the author of this introductory note, Nicolas Lupot was the true author of this work. (...) Apollon (Lupot) dictait et ... Sibire écrivait."
AND 1 other: G. HART, Le violon, ses luthiers célèbres et leurs imitateurs (...). French transl. by A. Royer (Paris, 1886, woodengr. plates and ills., sl. later gilt hmor. Sl. foxed).
- A very fine copy. = The plates show a total of 874 violin maker's tickets. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.