Fine Autograph Letters and Manuscripts from a Distinguished Private Collection: Part II | Music, Americana, English and Continental Literature - N09920

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Fine Autograph Letters And Manuscripts From A Distinguished Private Collection: Part II | Music, Americana, English And Continental Literature

13 décembre 2018 • New York

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Sale Number: N09920

188. Carte-de-visite photograph signed in black ink ("F. Liszt"), showing the grey-haired composer, three-quarter face, in a suit with pocket watch and chain

Estimation : 1 200 – 1 500 USD

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189. Fine cabinet photograph signed (“F.Liszt”)

Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 USD

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190. Fine cabinet photograph signed and inscribed with an autograph musical quotation (“Piccina bionda” from Zanetto), showing the young composer, full-face, wearing a suit and a large striped tie

Estimation : 1 200 – 1 500 USD

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191. Fine cabinet photograph with long autograph inscription in black ink signed by the composer “Hommage respectueux ce souvenir de “Sapho” à Géneve [sic] en 1899 Massenet, le portrait date du mois de février 1878 lors de la 1me rep du Roi de Lahore àTurin”, showing the young composer, three-quarter face with beard

Estimation : 1 000 – 1 500 USD

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192. Fine large photograph signed (“J.Massenet paris 1893”), showing the composer three-quarter face

Estimation : 500 – 600 USD

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193. Fine autograph letter signed (“Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”), to the publisher Fritz Simrock in Bonn, discussing the publication of his works

Estimation : 6 000 – 8 000 USD

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194. Fine autograph letter signed (“Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”), to the publisher Kistner, about the Incidental Music to Sophocles’ Antigone (MWV M12) and the oratorio Paulus (MWV A14)

Estimation : 6 000 – 8 000 USD

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195. Extraordinary autograph letter signed (“Nicolò Paganini”), to Severini

Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 USD

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196. Extraordinary autograph letter signed twice (“Nicolo Paganini[paraph]” and “N.Paganini”), to the publisher and musician Antonio Pacini

Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 USD

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197. Autograph letter signed (“G.Puccini’’), to [?the critic Gaetano] Cesari

Estimation : 1 000 – 1 500 USD

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198. Fine early cabinet photograph, showing the young composer full face with white tie, signed and inscribed by him in ink “Agli amici Cesari & Passati Ricordo di G.Puccini Torino carnevale [18]93”

Estimation : 3 000 – 5 000 USD

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199. Obscene autograph poem entitled “Cacca di Lucca”, signed (“Giacomo Puccini”), dedicated to his friends from Lucca and marked on verso (“da affiggere in vetrina”, [“to be displayed in the window”])

Estimation : 2 500 – 3 500 USD

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