3095: 1 vol. Bellini V(incenzo). La Straniera. Start Price USD 900.00 Current Price USD 1,900.00 Time Left - Bid Count 10 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location Philadelphia, PA See more about '3095: 1 vol. Bellini V(incenzo). La Straniera.' Description Current Lot 1 vol. Bellini, V(incenzo). La Straniera. Melodramma in 2 atti. Paris: Maurice Schlesinger, no date, [1829?]. First Paris edition, piano-vocal score. Plate no. M.S. 783. Italian text. Folio, slightly later full gilt & blind-tooled armorial straight-grained scarlet morocco, a.e.g., inner dentelles gilt; occasionally scuffed, edges & spine ends often slightly rubbed. Lithographic vignette title page by Engelmann, 153 engraved pp. of the score. Scattered, generally light internal foxing, but generally crisp and clean, on heavy paper. Presentation copy from the publisher, Maurice Schlesinger, bound for Charlotte Louise, wife of Nicholas I, Empress of Russia from 1825-55. With chromolithographic presentation leaf, bound preceding the title page, by Englemann, to the Empress from Schlesinger, who styles himself, "Directeur de la Gazette Musical de Paris," which he published under that name in 1834 & 1835. The opera was first performed on February 14, 1829 at the Milan Scala, the vocal score was first published in Milan in 1829. Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835), one of the most important opera composers of the 19th-Century. New Grove, 1: 446-455; New Grove Opera, 1: 389-397 Place a Bid!