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Opera. MUSIC COLLECTION OF CAROLINE, DUCHESSE DE BERRY, COMPRISING FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES OF EARLY EDITIONS, IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH BINDINGS, PARIS: MAURICE SCHLESINGER, BOIELDIEU, CARLI, JANET & COTELLE ETC. 1820S together with her manuscript catalogue of this collection ("Catalogue de Musique Appartenant A Son Altesse Royale Madame Duchesse de Berry"), c.170 pages, folio, plus blanks, 1820s including vocal scores, mainly operas, by Mozart (9 volumes: Le Nozze di Figaro, La clemenza di Tito, Il flauto magico, Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, Il Seraglio, Requiem, L'impresario, Schlesinger, texts in Italian, German and Latin, Rossini (6, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Elisabetta, La gazza ladra, I'italiana in Algeri, Otello, mainly Boieldieu, texts in Italian), Spontini (Fernand Cortez [full score], Paris: Erard, 594 pages, coloured frontispiece, full red morocco gilt), Leopold Aimon (Les jeux floraux [full score], the author, 1818, dedicated to the Duc de Berry, full red morocco gilt), Felix Blangini (Marie-Thérèse à Pressbourg, the author, dedicated to the Duchesse de Berry, fine violet morocco gilt, arms of the Duchesse), and operas by Cimarosa, Martini, Paër (4), Boieldieu (4), and Isouard, together with arias and romances by Mozart, Blangini and others, 46 volumes, folio, including the catalogue, mainly contemporary quarter red roan, crowned monograms to covers, a few volumes straight-grained morocco elaborately gilt, arms of Caroline Duchesse de Berry on covers, numbered C1-45 on spines, some wear and fading to spines