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Sale date:

Paintings, Books & Furniture Sale on Thursday 3rd July 2003

Lot numbers:

429-461 of 746

Lot

Description & Estimate

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Hammer Price £

429

RICHARD WAGNER: THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, translated by Margaret Armour, Garden City Publishing Company Inc, New York, 2vols., other Rackham illustrated editions and Tannhauser with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.

Nil

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1300
430 RICHARD WAGNER: HIS LIFE AND WORKS FROM 1813-1834, compiled from original letters, manuscripts and other documents by the Honourable Mrs Burrell and illustrated with portraits and facsimiles, 100 copies only are printed on specially manufactured paper with watermark facsimile of Richard Wagner's autograph signature no. 79, and Tristan and Isolder: A set of twelve coloured plates bound in a folio (2)

Nil

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650
431 ERNEST NEWMAN: WAGNER NIGHTS published Putnam, London, Stewart Chamberlain: Richard Wagner, Ernest Newman: Wagner as Man and Artist, Margaret Armour: The Fall of the Nibelung into English and other volumes (a collection).

Nil

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100
432 GEORGE AINSLIE HIGHT: WAGNERS TRISTAN UND ISOLDER, Lettsom: The Nibelungenlied, Philson Young: The Wagner Stories, Ernest Newman: Wagner as Man and Artist and other volumes(a collection)

Nil

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70
433 WM. ASHTON ELLIS: RICHARD TO MINNA WAGNER, letters to his first wife, two volumes, published London 1907, GD Gribble: The Master Works of Richard Wagner, Judith Gautier: Wagner at Home, Rayner: Wagner and die Meistersinger and other volumes (a collection)

Nil

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50
434 RICHARD WAGNER: MY LIFE published Constable & Co. Ltd, London 1911, 2vols., Parsifal and Tannhauser by CW Rollefton presented by Willy Pogany with numerous illustrations, Lord Lytton Rienzi Muggei Nietzsche: His Life and Works and other volumes (a collection)

Nil

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260
435 LETTERS OF RICHARD WAGNER: THE BURRELL COLLECTION published London 1951, Mathilde Wesendonk: Richard Wagner, The Nietzsche Wagner Correspondence, Cosima Wagner's Diaries, 2vols, Barry Millington: The Wagner Compendium and other volumes (a collection).

Nil

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130
436 AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF WAGNER RECORDINGS, the majority in boxed sets including The Ring Cycle Furtwangler's, Karl Bohm, Solti, Goodall and other opera's (a collection).

Nil

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200
440 LEONCAVALLO: A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH with autograph musical quotation from Pagliacci dated 15th August 1904. See illustration

Nil

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400
441 MASSENET JULES: Autograph musical quotation, signed From Massenet's Opera Manon, boldly signed and dated J. Massenet Paris 20th Avril 1910. At the foot Massenet has proudly inscribed in French "673rd performance at the Opera Comique yesterday evening". See illustration

Nil

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400
442 STRAUSS, RICHARD:A FINE COLOURED POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPH, signed, undated. See illustration

Nil

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220
443 VERDI GUISEPPE: A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH inscribed "A Robert Heckmann"? dated Cologne, 20th Mai 1877. See illustration

Nil

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2900
444 PUCCINI GIACOMO: A TOSCA POSTCARD, signed, and an autographed photographic print inscribed signed and dated 1920 (2). See illustration

Nil

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600
445 MASCAGNI PIETRO (1863-1945): A PHOTOGRAPH, quarter length by Ballerini, signed by Mascagni and dated by him Trieste 29th February 1924.

Nil

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220
446 SIR HUBERT PARRY: A SMALL COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS written to Edward Dannreuther and his wife including: 14th December 1880 congratulating Dannreuther on the safe arrival of HE Dannreuther and another on the occasion of his marriage 1916, and a small collection regarding the publication of Dannreuther's songs after his death (12).

Nil

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240
447 MARIA MENEGHINI CALLAS: AN AUTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH by Vivienne, signed, lower right border beneath the image Maria Callas 1970, a programme of the performance of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 15th November 1956, signed by Callas, a Royal Opera House, Covent Garden programme: Callas as Norma, 1952 season, and "A tribute to Maria Callas 1923-1977". See illustration

Nil

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3200
448 GIOVANNI MARTINELLI: A SIGNED PROGRAMME Coronation Season of International Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Tosca, Friday 14th May 1937, a portrait photograph and a record cover.

Nil

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90
449 GIGLI BENJAMINO: A PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH inscribed "To Mr Thos. A. Robertson very cordially Benjamino Gigli 1933" and another signature, indistinctly dated 1949? (2)

Nil

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130
450 CARUSO ENRICO; A FULL LENGTH SELF PORTRAIT SKETCH in the role of Dick Johnson in Puccini's "The Girl of the Golden West", pencil with signature and date in lower right Hamburg 1913. See illustration

Nil

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800
451 TAUBER, RICHARD: AN AUTOGRAPH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH inscribed "... in remembrance of our happy visit Richard Tauber 16-5-1941" and a signed portrait photograph of Henry Wood dated 1942 (2)

Nil

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300
452 MELBA, NELLIE: AN AUTOGRAPH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH by Rotary Photo, signed, another, and a Dame Clara Butt autographed letter from North Stoke, Oxford, June 15th 1930 (2)

Nil

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70
453 McCORMACK, JOHN: AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER: "Dear Miss Mary King, your daddy has written me such a nice letter ..." from Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London W1 dated December 3rd '30, signed John Count McCormack, a signed photograph and various other items (a collection).

Nil

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60
454 PAVLOVA, ANNA: A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT in private dress, signed on the image "Anna Pavlova", inscribed on verso "Anna Pavlova taken at Cheltenham, 3rd August 1923", a signed photograph in ballerina costume, another inscribed "The Celebrated Russian Dancer" and two Pavlova programmes (a lot)

Nil

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750
455 A COLLECTION OF CONCERT AND OPERATIC PROGRAMMES including: Gigli, Royal Albert Hall 1933, Clara Butt, Provincial Tour 1915, John McCormack, Royal Albert Hall 1925, The Farewell Appearance of Dame Nellie Melba at Covent Garden, June 8th 1926, Chaliapine Concert 1930 and others (a collection).

Nil

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70
456 A ROYAL OPERA COVENT GARDEN SILK PROGRAMME: Gala Performance by Command of His Majesty The King 1907 including Destin, Caruso and Melba in Butterfly Boheme and Meistersinger, another 1908, Tetrazzina McCormack and Melba, two other silk programmes and two printed programmes La Boheme - Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso (6)

Nil

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240
457 A COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPHS including: Lawrence Tibbett, Antonio Scotti as Scarpia, Tosti Rosa Ponselle, Yvonne Minton and Christa Ludwig in Rosenkavalier, Montserrat Caballe, Tebaldi and others (a collection).

Nil

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800
458 MOSCO CARNER: PUCCINI A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY published Gerald Duckworth, London, Charles Osborne: The Complete Operas of Puccini, other books on Puccini, Richard Strauss and Opera Houses of the World (a collection).

Nil

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30
459 BERNARD SHAW: MUSIC IN LONDON 1890-94, 3vols., Ernest Newman: More Essays from the World of Music, volumes of The Master Musician Series and others (a collection).

Nil

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30
460 PADEREWSKI AND LAWTON: THE PADEREWSKI MEMOIRS published Collins, London, Hillary Dupre and Piers Dupre: A Genius in the Family, Ivor Newton: At the Piano, and other volumes (a collection)

Nil

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 461

MARY JANE PHILLIPS-MATZ: VERDI A BIOGRAPHY, published Oxford University Press, Francis Toye: Guiseppe Verdi His Life and Works, other books on Verdi and general opera (a collection).

Nil

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