Nov 29, 2012 - Sale 2296

Sale 2296 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
INCLUDES GRIEG AND VERDI (ALBUM.) Autograph album containing approximately 45 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by 19th-century musicians, authors, actors, and others, in Italian or French, kept by Florentine Nelly Grilli Wissotzky. Many written on a slip of paper fixed to page at corners with thread, most written on recto page, one or two to a page. 8vo, gilt vellum over boards, slightly worn; dust jacket. Vp, 1880s-1901

Additional Details

Edvard Grieg. AMQS, 5 bars from "Med en Primula Veris," with lyrics. Written on a blank page with blank verso. Rome, 1899 Gabriele d'Annunzio. Autograph Poem Signed, fair copy of his poem in 16 lines beginning: "At the end of the noble cortège, Death." Np, nd Giuseppe Verdi. Envelope panel addressed in his hand, unsigned, to Nelly Wissotzky. Busseto, 1884[?] [from postmark] Eugen d'Albert. Signature and date. Florence, 14 April 1898 Hans von Bülow. Clipped Signature and date, "Hans de Bülow / Meiningen ce 24 oct. / 84" Jules Massenet. AMQS, 6 bars from his Manon. Paris, December 1898 Clara Schumann. Signature and date on a slip of paper. London, March 1888 Pablo de Sarasate y Navascues. AMQS, a single chord from an unknown work. Np, 30 march 1896 Joseph Joachim. AMQS, 3 bars from a work by Bach. London, February 1888 Ignacy Jan Paderewski. AMQS, 3 bars from "Polish Fantasy." Rome, 28 February 1901 Pietro Mascagni. AMQS, two bars from Iris. Rome, December 1896 Giosuè Carducci. AQS, 4 lines from his "Il canto dell'amore." Np, nd Leopoldo Mugnone. AMQS, 4 bars from Il biricchino. Np, nd Tommaso Salvini. AQS. Florence, 21 February 1896 Enrico Panzacchi. AQS. Bologna, 4 February 1889 Adelaide Ristori. Autograph Inscription Signed, "Mio motto è / Ardire - Fidi - Fermezza / Adelaide Ristori / del Grillo / Roma 11 Feb. 1896" Ada Negri. Signature and date. Florence, 11 April 1896 Paul Bourget. Autograph Poem Signed, beginning, "Comme des pétales de roses." Np, nd others.