Hector BERLIOZ

First edition.
Contemporary green half morocco bindings, spines uniformly sunned, with gilt fillets and dentelle motifs, marbled paper covers, morocco label "Marie Seillan" pasted on each volume, spine-ends rubbed, otherwise a handsome copy. Scattered foxing, paper on some issues a little browned.
Detailed volume contents :
- Volume 1: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores, 2 lithographs with the first two scores, an engraved portrait of Rossini, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 2: 25 issues (nos. 27 to 52) and 26 scores, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 3: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores (two scores are missing and have been replaced by three others). Complete...

Original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format, mounted on card from Nadar studio, 35 boulevard des Capucines.
Manuscript annotations on verso.
A copy of this photograph is held in the Music Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Work illustrated with 14 original lithographs by Adolphe Fantin-Latour printed on China paper as well as 12 portraits of Hector Berlioz, 3 plates hors-texte and 122 engravings, facsimiles of autographs, caricatures...
Binding in full red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt rolls on headcaps, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, fine engraved bookplate mounted on one pastedown, gilt dentelle border on pastedowns, covers preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on edges, perfect contemporary binding signed Cuzin.
Our copy is enhanced with an autograph note signed by Hector Berlioz...

First edition.
Half shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands with gilt decorations, date at foot, marbled paper covers, original soft front cover preserved.
Rare and precious signed autograph inscription by the composer: “à mon ami Seligmann - Hector Berlioz” ("to my friend Seligmann - Hector Berlioz")
Hippolyte-Prosper Seligmann (1817-1882), cellist and composer, was an active member of the Philharmonic Society founded by Berlioz in 1849.
Provenance: R. & B. L. library, with his bookplate pasted on the back of the first endpaper.

Les Grotesques de la musique [The Musical Madhouse]
A. Bourdilliat & Cie | Paris 1859 | 11.5 x 18 cm | publisher's original binding
First edition.
Publisher's green cloth, spine and boards ruled in blind, yellow endpapers and pastedowns, pastedowns soiled, edges spotted.
A little light foxing.
A rare and handsome autograph inscription signed by Hector Berlioz in pencil to title: "à mon ami Théodore Ritter, souvenirs affectueux"
Théodore Ritter, son of composer Eugène Prévost, was Berlioz's student for whom he composed a piano arrangement of L'Enfance du Christ [The Childhood of Christ]
Berlioz inscriptions are rare and highly...

Original edition.
Binding half percaline indigo, smooth back with a gold central floret, double gold mesh tail piece as long marine morocco grain, marbled paper plates, corners lightly used not serious, contemporary binding.
Rare and precious autograph signed by the author to his close friend, the cellist (Ernest) Desmarest a pencil on the title page: "my friend Desmarest, souvenir of an old and faithful affection H. Berlioz." .
Often cited by biographers, the correspondence between Berlioz and his faithful accomplice is an important source of information about the work and master of artistic questions, as this letter written from 1841 to 1842 during his first...