2023 New York Antiquarian Book Fair
63rd New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York
Booth B1
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"Ouverture de David Rizzio". Autograph musical manuscript signed ("Georges …No place, probably ca. 1866.
€ 65,000.00Exceptionally rare, unpublished musical manuscript: Bizet's autograph orchestration of the overture to Hippolyte Rodrigues's opera "David Rizzio", about the historical courtier who was the private secretary and rumoured lover of Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1566 he was assassinated by her husband, the jealous Lord Darnley, and a conspiracy of Protestant …
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"Conférence de M. Eiffel sur la Tour de 300 mètres". Brochure with autograph …Paris, 1889.
€ 8,500.00Rare booklet for the conference on 20 February 1889, beautifully inscribed to a Belgian woman named Marguerite Cruyt, dated Paris, 4 April 1889. The partly lithographed letter from the secretariat of Gustave Eiffel was written in response to a request for Eiffel's signature by Marguerite Cruyt from 26 March 1889.
Stronger browning and several …