Budapest

Autograph letter signed by Jules Massenet, two pages written in black ink on a double sheet.
Fold inherent to mailing. A small split at the junction of the two sheets, without gravity.
Fine letter written by the composer during his first stay in the Hungarian capital for Le Roi de Lahore whose premiere took place eight days later: "Répétition générale ce matin [...] excellente exécution" ["General rehearsal this morning [...] excellent execution"]. Massenet mentions the setbacks that occurred which forced the postponement of the opera's programming: "La Benza [Ida], notre Sitia, ne pouvant chanter demain à cause de son deuil, la pr

First editions of these articles and papers separated by a blank leaf.
Contemporary half green sheep. Black calf title label. Fillets. Headcaps very rubbed.
This important collection of ophthalmological articles comprises in order:
-Notes on ocular hygiene in schools and in the city of Lyon by J. Gayat. Lyon. Delahaye. 1874. 30pp.
-Recovery of six born blind by Dr. Louis Fialla. Bucharest. 1878. 32pp.
-On the ordinary causes of failure in the extraction of Morgagni cataract and on the means to overcome them by Dr. Georges Martin de Cognac. Paris. Delahaye. 1878. 20pp.
-Ophthalmological clinic of Dr. de Wecker in Paris. Statistical report by Dr. Masselon of opera

First edition.
Back and flat slightly and marginally discolored and insolated without gravity.
Rare signed autograph, in French, from Illyes Gyula to her friend Véronique (Charaire), her French translator.