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1889272886Berlin: Berlin Kunstdruck - und Verlags-Anstalt 1889. First. unbound. near fine. Carl Emil Doepler. Group of 39 of 40 total large plates showing costume designs for all the characters in Wagner's Ring by Carl Emil Doepler. Beautifully printed chromolithograph plates with excellent details 13-1/2" x 18" loose as issued and protected in a new gray cloth portfolio box with red leather spine label and the original title text mounted on front. Berlin: Berlin Kunstdruck- und Verlags-Anstalt Vormals A. & C. Kaufmann 1889. First edition. The 10 text pages are quite tattered at edges but the plates printed on heavier stock are all in excellent clean condition with only very minor wear at marginal edges or corners of 4 plates. Lacking plate 26: "Wotan als Wanderer" but otherwise a near fine copy of this very scarce and beautifully produced work - OCLC lists only 1 copy in the Netherlands and there is only 1 auction sale record from 1993.<br/><br/> Part I Das Rheingold: 1 Rheintochter. 2 Wotan. 3 Fricka und Freia. 4 Fasolt. 5 Fafner. 6 Donner. 7 Froh. 8 Loge. 9 Alberich. 10 & 11 Die Nibelungen. 12 Erda. Part II Die Walkure: 13 Siegmund. 14 Sieglinde. 15 Hunding. 16 Wotan. 17 Brunnhilde. 18 Waltraute. 19 Die Walkuren Grimgerde & Gerhilde & Siegrune. 20 Ortlinde. 21 Rossweisse. 22 Schwertleite. 23 Helmwige. Part III Siegfried: 24 Mime. 25 Siegfried. 26 Wotan LACKING. 27 Alberich. Part IV Gotterdammerung: 28 Die Nornen. 29 Brunhilde. 30 Siegfried. 31 Gunther. 32-35 Mannen Gunthers. 36 Barde und Kinder. 37 Knechte mit Jagdbeute. 38 Gutrune. 39 Frauen im Gefolge Gutrunes. 40 Hagen.<br/><br/> Berlin Kunstdruck - und Verlags-Anstalt unknown books
187518437Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne April 1875. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Götterdämmerung. Vollständiger Klavierauszug von Karl Klindworth. Folio. Lithographed throughout. PN 21500. 1f. general title "Der Ring des Nibelungen" 1f. title 1f. half-title 1 cast list and contents 2-357 i blank pp. Inscribed on the title page by cellist and composer David Popper as follows: "Der unsterblichen / Muse Richard Wagner / kunstbegeisterten / Förderer durch Wort / und Schrift von / seinem ihn herzlich / .David Poper / Wien 6. Mai 1875 / III. Wagnerkonzert in Wien" "The immortal muse of Richard Wagner / his art-loving supporter through written/ and spoken word/ warmly / David Popper / Vienna 6 May 1875 / 3. Wagner concert in Vienna".   Contemporary black cloth boards quarter brown leather. Generally in fine internal condition throughout with a few light pencil markings one leaf p. 11/12 with two significant tears; spine covering largely perished boards separating from the block rear board barely holding on. Fuld p. 465; Deathridge Geck and Voss WWV p. 402; Klein p. 51. <br>The present historic copy was inscribed on the occasion of Wagner's conducting portions of Götterdämmerung in concert in Vienna in advance of the the complete opera's Bayreuth premiere in 1876. The publication of this piano vocal score preceded the full score by over a year and the general title page on which Popper has inscribed as well as the half title are common to the full scores of all four Ring operas. As with Siegfried and Parsifal Schott's first edition of Götterdämmerung was issued in lithographed form with only a few mainly presentation copies being issued directly from the engraved plates. <br>One of the most influential cellists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Popper was a student of Julius Goltermann and at age 25 secured the position of principal in the Vienna Hofoper and the Vienna PO the youngest player to hold such a post and later joined the Hellmesberger Quartet. He was in friendly contact with Franz Liszt whose pupil pianist Sophie Menter became Popper's first wife in 1872. This marriage which produced in 1876 a daughter Celeste ended after fourteen years although during that time the couple appeared in countless joint recitals. His acquaintance with Liszt led Popper also to Richard Wagner and in 1873 he became a co-founder of the first ever official Wagner Society the Viennese Wagner-Verband. In 1886 his marriage dissolved Popper was appointed by Liszt as professor at the National Hungarian Royal Acadamy of Music where he established the cello and chamber music divisions. He remained until his death having also served as a member of the Hubay Quartet. A cellist of superior technique and a warm powerful tone Popper was a champion of new music and the composer of more than 75 works mostly for his own instrument. His most important contribution is certainly the Hohe Schule des Violoncello-Spiels a set of 40 studies that examine the positions of the left hand within a highly chromatic Wagner-influenced setting. <br style="">Götterdämmerung is the fourth opera in the Ring cycle. Excerpts were first performed in a concert at the Musikverein in Vienna on March 25 1875; the entire work was first performed as part of the Ring cycle at Bayreuth on August 17 1876. "The final opera of the Ring. provides an appropriately weighty conclusion to the epic cycle. 26 years elapsed from the time Wagner made his first prose draft for the work then called Siegfrieds Tod to the completion of the full score with inevitable consequences in terms of stylistic unity. Retrogressive elements of grand opera exist side by side with motivic integration representative of Wagner's most mature style. And yet the stylistic integrity of Götterdämmerung is scarcely compromised so skillfully are the disparate elements welded together and so intense the dramaturgical conviction. The resources and stamina demanded by the work from both singers and orchestra combined with its sheer length and theatrical potency make it one of the most daunting yet rewarding undertakings in the operatic repertory." Grove Music Online<br style=""><br style=""> B. Schott's Söhne hardcover books
186918200Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1869. Cloth. Very Good. Following the 1850 original printing of Wagner's virulent attack on the influence of Judaism in music this is the 1869 correct 2nd edition published out of Leipzig and for the first time using Wagner's own name as author. Rebound in the mid-20th century in a light-blue cloth with dark leather title label at the spine. New front and rear endsheets as well. Happily though the complete book is bound-in including the original light-green wrappers which show minor soiling and creasing along the edges. The original text has held us very nicely as well; bright clean and eminently readable. Octavo 57 pgs. plus publisher's ad at the rear. <br/><br/> Verlagsbuchhandlung von J..J. Weber hardcover books
1899208238Akron: Werner Company 1899. First. hardcover. very good-. Handsomely illustrated with 44 full-page color lithographs. 241pp. Oblong folio pictorial cloth; some areas of edges lightly worn back cover and first few page margins lightly soiled last two blank pages lightly dampstained rebacked in modern brown cloth front flyleaf lacking bottom right corner inner hinges strengthened. Akron: Werner Company 1899. First Edition.<br/><br/> Internally the plates and text are bright. Plates depict soldiers on horseback and on foot mostly in battle scenes.<br/><br/> Werner Company unknown books
187526101Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne PN 21500 1875. Folio. Contemporary dark brown tooled half calf with dark green cloth boards decorative initials "P.R." to upper gilt titling to spine in ruled compartments all edges gilt. 1f. general title "Der Ring des Nibelungen 1f. title 1f. half-title 1 cast list and contents 2-357 i blank pp. Lithographed throughout. <br/><br/>Cloth portion of binding slightly stained worn and frayed at edges light blue watered silk endpapers slightly soiled. Slightly foxed and browned. First Edition. Fuld p. 465. Deathridge Geck and Voss WWV p. 402. Klein p. 51. The general title and half title are common to the full scores of all four Ring operas.<br/><br/>Götterdämmerung is the fourth opera in the Ring cycle. Excerpts were first performed in a concert at the Musikverein in Vienna on March 25 1875; the entire work was first performed as part of the Ring cycle at Bayreuth on August 17 1876. <br/><br/>"The final opera of the Ring. provides an appropriately weighty conclusion to the epic cycle. 26 years elapsed from the time Wagner made his first prose draft for the work then called Siegfrieds Tod to the completion of the full score with inevitable consequences in terms of stylistic unity. Retrogressive elements of grand opera exist side by side with motivic integration representative of Wagner's most mature style. And yet the stylistic integrity of Götterdämmerung is scarcely compromised so skilfully are the disparate elements welded together and so intense the dramaturgical conviction. The resources and stamina demanded by the work from both singers and orchestra combined with its sheer length and theatrical potency make it one of the most daunting yet rewarding undertakings in the operatic repertory." Barry Millington in Grove Music Online. B. Schott's Söhne [PN 21500] unknown books
18863040Paris: Jules Rouam 1886. First edition. First edition. Thick folio. The Deluxe Copy. Three quarter light brown morocco five rasied bands marbled boards gilt spine. Celebrated treatise on Wagner with superb gravure illustrations by Fantin-Latour 120 including a double suite of lithographs printed on both Japan Vellum as well as China Paper. Scenes from operas much more all tissue-guarded. Some light rubbing to corners and spine very good copy. <br/><br/> Jules Rouam hardcover books
18712499291871. unbound. 2 pages front and back 8.5 x 5.25 inches no place September 22 1871. Elegant letter signed "Cosima" by the daughter of Franz Liszt second wife of Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festival for 31 years. This letter thanks a friend for sending her clothing measurements and giving her carte blanche for both color and make of an item of clothing. She also writes that the children's maid has gone away leaving her to do the washing hairdressing clothing playing teaching running up and down stairs like a rat ".je lave je coiffe j'habille je joue j'enseigne je cours comme un rat a travers les escaliers.". She ends with a request for used foreign stamps for her daughter Loulou's collection. Natural folds; very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
18882180Bloomsburg PA 1888. Very Good . Manuscript notebook composed by Ida Sylva Wagner a young woman training to become a teacher at the Bloomsburg State Normal School now Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania between 1888-1889. Comprised of 88 pages in ink and pencil blending lecture and reading notes with what appear to be Ida's own drafts of analytic essays practice lesson plans and examination questions. Quarter cloth over marbled boards measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Shelf-wear to extremities and hinges tender but holding. Text block overall tight with mild toning not affecting text. Wagner's ownership signature and school information on front paste-down; second ownership signature along with Wagner's later teaching location on rear paste-down. In Very Good condition overall considering its daily class use and apparent usage as a reference guide during Ida's later teaching career.<br/><br/>Established in 1869 the Bloomsburg State Normal School aimed to provide rigorous teacher training to ensure that regional educators could "teach the youth elements of classical education" Bloomsburg University. State census records show that she would have been 22 at the time of this class and that she later moved to Luzerne County to work as a teacher after graduation. This notebook rigorously documents her work in an advanced Practical Teaching course which provided pedagogical methodology as well as requiring students to put methods into practice by designing usable teaching materials. Ida's notebook is roughly divided into sections with blanks separating each; and they include practical notes including Introductory Consideration Foundations and Principles Length of Recitation Object Lessons and Plan of Lessons as well as sample content for lessons such as Primary Reading Primary Numbers and Rules of Grammar. In her hand Ida reflects on the importance of theory and practice noting "The powers of the child which demand the teacher's attention are the physical the intellectual the moral and the spiritual.before knowing can take place there must be something to know and the thing to be known must affect its appropriate sense." This guiding principle clearly shapes the class and Ida's notes show that she is being trained in the "something to know" for example the 15 pages of vocabulary pronunciations and definitions as well as the "affecting its appropriate sense" for example the 46 initial pages on methods for shaping appropriate lessons. <br/><br/>A dense resource with research possibilities including but not limited to the fields of history of pedagogy history of American higher education women's education and employment and gender studies. Very Good . unknown books
189921376Akron: The Werner Company 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth decorated pictorially and in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 241 pages. Oblong folio 45 x 34 cm. 43 chromolithographs 25 Army and 18 Navy army and navy uniforms from the Revolution through the Spanish-American War with lettered tissue guards printed in red. Title page printed in red and black. Appendices include The Ships of the United States Navy by class some were wood gunboats. BENNETT p.109. Minor nicks to backstrip extremities a very fresh clean copy with beveled edges. The Werner Company hardcover books
1877746London: Schott's 1877. First English language edition. First trade edition and 1st combined edition in English translated by Alfred Forman of The Rhein-Gold The Walkyrie Siegfried and Dusk of the Gods preceded only by privately printed separate issues of the 4 individual parts 1873-1875 to secure copyright which had a total of just 238 pages. This is the complete librettos with 351 pages of snugly printed tiny type containing all the dialogue and stage directions for all 4 parts. <br/><br/>Half cloth marbled boards printed paper label. Near fine condition with the series half-title and title page as well as all 4 half-titles. Ex-Edw. Schuberth & Co. oval stamp to half-title. Schott's unknown books
187795London: Schott 1877. First Edition. 1/2 cloth. Near fine. 1st collected edition in English complete in 356 pages a copy with less pages is missing something. The Rhein-Gold The Walkyrie Siegfried and Dusk of the Gods preceded in English only by the privately printed individual librettos a hastily gathered abridged assembly of 238 pages total published to secure copyright. Our edition issued to accompany Wagner's conducting of the cycle in London has all 4 parts with all the stage directions and dialogue. Contemporary half cloth marbled boards printed paper label near fine complete with the volume half-title the 4 half-titles for the individual parts and the coda To Richard Wagner. Ex-Edw. Schuberth with his company's oval stamp to the general half-title. The source was the prodigious German epic poem Das Nibelungen Lied anonymously written by an unknown massive-aggressive in the 12th century about events in the 5th or 6th. It recounts the deeds of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer the Germanator his betrayal and murder and the revenge of his wife Kriemhilda the real heroine. In 1816 Professor of philology Karl Lachmann began a careful study of the 11 known more or less complete manuscripts then ordered them chronologically collated corrected translated and amalgamated them to finally produce the version in Middle High German. It remains a foundational pillar of European literature but it was Wagner 1813-1883 who transformed it into an opera the only venue where people die of love by first revisiting Lachmann then brooding upon it and finally escalating the dramatic harmonic and most famously the instrumental forces beyond any of his predecessors setting a new and basic though often ignored challenge for his successors. The Ring Cycle exemplifies his theories and it's conjoining with national epic poetry was the appropriate agent for a masterwork. Schott unknown books
1899WRCAM31111Akron Oh.: The Werner Company 1899. 103pp. plus twenty-five chromolithographs. Oblong folio. Original pictorial cloth. Corners bumped cloth edgeworn and spotted. Hinges weak. Internally clean and fresh. Wagner's lavish work contains numerous large chromolithographs depicting the history of the army of the United States from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War with depictions of all. It also serves as a useful guide for identifying military dress throughout the first hundred years of the U.S. Army. The Werner Company of Akron Ohio was a leading innovator in new printing technology at the end of the century. According to McGrath the plates were created by combining the primary colors and sienna in careful mixtures allowing far fewer color stones than would have traditionally been used. "Not only are the plates technically interesting but three are from drawings by Henry Alexander Ogden" - McGrath. The result of this trichromatic chromolithographic technique while somewhat blotchy in appearance probably considerably lowered the cost of printing such a plate. Wagner's work was published in a one-volume edition which contained forty-two plates including seventeen of the U.S. Navy with accompanying text. It was also published in a two-volume set with one volume for the army as here and one for the navy. McGRATH pp.149 163 172. BENNETT p.109. The Werner Company hardcover books
18602384861860. Albumen print mounted on "Steinberg photographe" card. Image: 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. Some surface scuffs primarily at the right margin; very good. Albumen print mounted on "Steinberg photographe" card. Image: 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. unknown books
18521887Leipzig: Weber 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Cloth boards leather spine with raised bands. Gilt lettering on spine. New end papers Edges of spine & covers slightly rubbed. Otherwise a nice copy. <br/><br/> Weber hardcover books
1853203022Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan 1853. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving. Image measures 7.75" x 36".<br/><br/> Rare illustration of the southern shore of Lake Pontchartrain showing engineering improvements including a lighthouse proposed canal and railroad. Includes inset details of "Cross-Section of Breakwater & Fender" and "Plan of Breakwater". Minor toning along original folds. Small chip to lower right corner image unaffected.<br/><br/> Wagner & McGuigan unknown books
1899010491Akron OH: Werner Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. A large volume with original pictorial boards. Image cropped due to scanner size. Black boards have rubbed and frayed corners and edges with light soil and scuffs. Spine pulling and loose at front hinge text block bound tight. All edges gilt. Endpapers have tape repairs creasing and chips. Corner piece missing from first free endpaper. Text pages have some soil including smudges on plate margins. The plates have the original tissue guards and the images are in very good condition. 43 chromo-lithograph plates xxii 23-241. The book is divided into Army and Navy sections with illustrations of scenes and especially uniforms from various periods. Appendices contain details on the recent Spanish-American War and lists of the Navy's vessels by category. ; Chromo-lithograph; 14" x 1 1/2" x 18"; 241 pp . Werner Company hardcover books
187033347Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch 1870. Octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers with titling within double-lined border. 1f. recto half-title verso blank 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. "Vorwort" 73 i blank pp. Colophon to verso of lower wrapper.<br/><br/>Wrappers worn slightly soiled and foxed; several small edge chips and tears; lower detached. Slightly worn; occasional foxing; margins slightly soiled and dampstained heavier to lower. First Edition. Kastner p. 76. Oesterlein I p. 6.<br/><br/>"In the essay Beethoven published in 1870 to coincide with the centenary celebrations of the composer Wagner completed a process of rapprochement initiated with 'Zukunftsmusik' ten years earlier between the aesthetics of Oper und Drama and those of Schopenhauer. In 'Zukunftsmusik' Wagner continued to elevate his own species of text-related musical discourse above pure instrumental music but the claim is modified by a reappraisal of the worth of symphonic music particularly that of Beethoven. In Beethoven he finally accepts that words and music cannot enjoy totally equal status: with Schopenhauer he maintains that music is the ultimate vehicle of expression." <br/><br/>" . Like all composers of his era Wagner grew up in the shadow of Beethoven and the Classical symphonic tradition. His obsession with Beethoven revealed both in the autobiographical writings and in fictional stories such as the novella Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven reflected a perceived need to confront that tradition acknowledging the legacy of Beethoven and at the same time staking a claim as his natural successor." Barry Millington John Deathridge Carl Dahlhaus and Robert Bailey in Grove Music Online. E.W. Fritzsch unknown books
18701756Leipzig: Fritzsch 1870. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps sl. worn/stained on rear. A very nice copy. 73pp. of text in German. Centenary essay. Wagner uses Beethoven's music to justify Schopenhauer's claim that music by contrast to the other arts expresses the world's inner being. <br/><br/> Fritzsch paperback books
187035275Mainz: B. Schott's Söhnen 1870. Original publisher's light gray printed wrappers with titling with ruled border. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto cast list verso blank 5-84 pp. 2ff. publisher's advertisements. With publisher's advertisements to both recto and verso of lower wrapper. <br/><br/>With small handstamp of the Italian writer on music composer and keyboard performer Alberto Cametti 1871-1935 to foot of title.<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn; small edge tears; some chips with minor loss not affecting text; most of spine lacking; small rectangular inventory label to upper inner corner. Uniform light browning; corners of several leaves slightly creased. First separate edition later issue. Klein p. 46. Deathridge Geck & Voss p. 366 VIIIb. Schneider catalogue 276.<br/><br/>First performed on June 26 1870 in Munich at the Königliches Hof und- Nationaltheater in three acts to a libretto by the composer the first day of the Ring des Nibelungen. <br/><br/>"As a single opera Die Walküre may be called the most popular part of the whole cycle; in most towns and countries it was produced much earlier than the other parts." Loewenberg col. 1013.<br/><br/>"Die Walküre is the music drama that most satisfactorily embodies the theoretical principles of Oper und Drama. A thoroughgoing synthesis of poetry and music is achieved without any notable sacrifice in musical expression. Indeed many of the most powerful passages of the work achieve their effect precisely through the organic relationship of music and text. Die Walküre is generally regarded as the most approachable of the Ring operas and it has certainly proved the most susceptible to performance in extracts." Barry Millington in Grove Music Online. B. Schott's Söhnen unknown books
1874WRCAM52928Saco Me.: William S. Noyes & Co. 1874. iv118025694066pp. Early 20th-century buckram gilt leather labels. Cloth somewhat soiled labels chipped front hinge loosening. Paper shelf label on spine institutional ink stamp on titlepage. Nine interior leaves detached and chipped. Moderate tanning. Good. A scarce trial account of an 1874 Maine island murder motivated by robbery and accomplished after a great feat of endurance. "Wagner believed that $600 was in the house of a family living on the Isle of Shoals a spot of land ten miles out to sea from Portsmouth New Hampshire. He rowed out there one night and killed two women with an ax a third escaping into the night to hide among the rocks. He was convicted and executed for the crime" - McDade. McDADE 1032. William S. Noyes & Co. hardcover books
18719024620Weimar: Bernhard Friedrich Voigt. 1871. Paperback. Very good. Wrappers rebound in plain paper. Four folding charts showing manufacturing processes. In good condition but for some browning. Bookplate and library stamps. <br/><br/> Bernhard Friedrich Voigt. paperback books
1890182859München: Hanfstaengel 1890. Softcover. G some soiling on front cover back cover has fold and cracking. Pages are clean and tight. Great conditon considering age. Illustrated wraps with goild foil. 23 pages : 3 folded plans ; 19 cm atlas of 1 plate folded. Text in German. This is NOT the photography verson of a similarly named title. This was produced in parallel and contains folded plans and maps of city and area. Abgekürzte Beschreibung des Rundgemäldes von Prof. J. Bühlmann und Alex. von Wagner. Hanfstaengel unknown books
1889127291889. hardcover. 6 pages pp. 833-38 IN: Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie vol. 16. Contemporary 1/2 calf; rubbed. Leipzig 1889. First Edition. Offered entire.<br/><br/> Osteoplastic flap operation. Wagner's method of opening the skull made a large area of the brain more easily accessible than by trephining. GM 4862.<br/><br/> unknown books
1887048005Leipzig: Breitkopf Und Härtel 1887. 2 vols. 298; 328p. original green decorative cloth with gilt trim and lettering. Contents: Bd. 1 Vom Jahre 1841 bis 1853. Bd. 2 Vom Jahre 1854 bis 1861. Breitkopf Und Härtel unknown books
18902304628Paris: Librairie Fischbacher 1890. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. bookplate of Rowland Hazard a member of a prominent Rhode Island family there were five Rowlands three of whom were alive when this book was printed on front paste-down endpaper pencil note on front free endpaper verso some pages very lightly foxed. 1890 Full-Leather. 288 pp. French text. Full morocco gilt titles and rules marbled endpapers. Kufferath's study of the musical drama by Richard Wagner which premiered in 1882. Librairie Fischbacher hardcover books
