Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GLUCK, CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. Orphée et Euridice, Tragédie. Opera en trois Actes. Libretto by Pierre-Louis Moline. Engraved frontispiece. [4], 217 pages. entirely engraved throughout. Folio, 331x257 mm, contemporary green-dyed vellum boards, spine darkened and chipped, joints partly cracked, cords intact; light soiling on frontispiece and title, frontispiece trimmed slightly in gutter and mounted on verso of front free endpaper, light dampstaining in lower margins toward end, old scrawls and ink blots on rear endpapers. Bibliothèque Le Corbeiller stamp in upper margin of title, ad label of music instrument dealer Leduc in lower margin. Paris: chez Des Lauriers, circa 1783-91

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Second edition of the orchestral score of the French version. Hopkinson 41A(h).