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Opera. COLLECTION DES CHEF D'OEUVRES DRAMATIQUES MODERNES DES ECOLES ITALIENNE, FRANÇAISE ET ALLEMANDE...DÉDIÉE À SON ALTESSE ROYALE MADAME LA D[UCHE]SSE DE BERRY, PAR L'EDITEUR... PARIS: MAURICE SCHLESINGER, 1824-C.1830 including operas by Auber, La Muette de Portici, opéra in cinq actes, 342 pages, plate no.328--La neige, plate .380--Beethoven, Fidelio, 230 pages, text in French and Italian, plate numbers M.S. and A.F.82.(B-R), c.1826--Bellini, Il Pirata, melodramma in due atti, 209 pages, plate M.S.898--La Straniera, 153 pages, plate M.S. 783--Mercadante, Elisa e Claudio, drama, 203 pages, plate M.S.145--Meyerbeer, Il crociato in Egitto, opera seria, 275 pages, plate 204M.S. and M.S.404, portrait of the composer after Vigneron--Margherita d'Anjou, Opera semiseria, 180 pages, plate M.S. 556--Rossini, Matilde de Sabran ossia Il Corradino, engraved title, 208 pages, plate 2065J.C.--Maometto Secondo, opera seria, 283 pages, plate 2136J.C.--Zelmira...composta e ridotta per il cembalo da G. Rossini, 143 & 67 pages, plate M.S.147, blue silk marker, [1824]--Semiramide...composta e ridotta per il cembalo da J. Rossini, 190 & 127 pages, plate M.S. 146, [1824]--Le Siège de Corinthe, 356 pages, plate 180-- Moïse, opéra en quatre actes, 331 pages, plate 205--Weber. Le Chasseur noir [Der Freischütz], 145 pages, plate M.S.148 [1824], text in French and German--together with operas by Boieldieu, Weigl and Winter 18 volumes, folio (c.40 x 29cms), engraved series titles, lithographed titles (most with vignettes), engraved music, contemporary Parisian straight-grain red morocco elaborately gilt, arms of Caroline Duchesse de Berry to upper and lower covers, gilt and blind-stamped with leaf tools, series title and opera titles to spines, gilt edges, a few small tears to covers, some spines faded