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Lot 211
  • 211

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Collection of late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century librettos
  • paper
including: Die Entführung aus dem Serail...Für die k. k. Hoftheater, Vienna: Wallishauser, 1808, 58 pages, 8vo, ownership stamp and nineteenth-century inscription to title, nineteenth-century blue wrappers; Don Juan Oper in zwei Akten. Nach dem Italienischen des Abb. da Ponte frei bearbeitet von Friedrich Rochlitz, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1801, 58, large 8vo, original printed wrappers, discolouration to wrappers, light spotting; Don Juan, oder der steinerne Gast, Klagenfurt: mit J.J. Leonschen Schriften, 1804, 57 pages, 8vo, ownership inscription to title, later wrappers; Die Zauberflöte. Eine große Oper in zwey Aufzügen, no place or publisher, 1795, 80 pages, 8vo (17.4 x 10cm), ownership stamp to title, contemporary marbled wrappers, first two leaves strengthened at hinge, browning (and one other published in Berlin); Titus. Eine große Oper in zwey Aufzügen, Vienna: M.A. Schmidt, 1801, 42 pages, 8vo, ownership stamp to title, contemporary stencilled wrappers, one gathering detached (10); together with Orphea Taschenbuch für 1825 [...1826...1827]. Zweiter Jahrgang. Mit acht Kupfern...zu Mozart's Don Juan. [...Dritter Jahrgang. Mit acht Kupfern...zu Mozart's Zauberflöte...Vierter Jahrgang. Mit acht Kupfern...zu Figaro's Hochzeit.], Leipzig: Ernst Fleischer, 1825 [...1826...1827], 3 volumes, 8vo, 24 engraved illustrations in all, modern bindings, slipcase bearing the printed label "Orphea Taschenbuch für 1827", staining to slipcase

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A good collection of early librettos, containing no fewer than three such for La clemenza di Tito, one of the composer's most highly esteemed stage works in the early years after his death.