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Auction No 402, Category: Performing Arts

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Sir Richard Baker "Theatrum Triumphans, or a Discourse of Plays, Shewing the lawfulness and excellent use of Drammatique Poesy

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £92
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Sir Richard Baker Theatrum Triumphans, or a Discourse of Plays, Shewing the lawfulness and excellent use of Drammatique Poesy and vindicating the Stage from those groundless Calumnies and misrepresentions, wherewith it is aspersed. Francis Eglesfield, London, 1670; small 8vo, contemp. full leather, some wear to backstrip; title page faded; two leaves of the preface near detached of which one has margins shaved; two further leaves with damp-staining at foot o/w VG internally; (8),141pp

Royal Opera House Covent Garden, a collection of Programmes 1960s to 1980s, mostly autographed including Boris Christoff (3),

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £110
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Royal Opera House Covent Garden, a collection of Programmes 1960s to 1980s, mostly autographed including Boris Christoff (3), Peter Glossop (2), Jessye Norman, Alfredo Kraus (3), Geoffrey Parsons, Lucia Popp (3), Hermann Prey (2), Heather Harper (2), Kiri Te Kanawa, Edward Downes, Geraint Evans (3), Stuart Burrows (2), Robert Tear, Gwynne Howell (3), Joan Sutherland, Janet Baker, Colin Davis (3), and many others, most with multiple signatures. VG/VF (43). Also a loose page signed by Placido Domingo and four others. 

Enrico Caruso: 1921 post card from Italy to UK, written and signed by the celebrated tenor, thanking his correspondent for her telegram.

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £115
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Enrico Caruso: 1921 post card from Italy to UK, written and signed by the celebrated tenor, thanking his correspondent for her telegram. Some corner creasing o/w VG. With certificate of authenticity from RR auctions, Amherst, USA, dated Sept.2012.

Jazz History, Biography and reference, 1949 to 1990s, mostly in d/jkts, plus few softbacks. Includes few on vocalists & composers.

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Jazz History, Biography and reference, 1949 to 1990s, mostly in d/jkts, plus few softbacks. Includes few on vocalists & composers. One with ownership signature. VG/VF (23)

Peter Noble "The Fabulous Orson Welles", 1956; Clinton Heylin "Orson Welles versus the Hollywood Studios", 2005;

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £26 - £36
UNSOLD
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Peter Noble The Fabulous Orson Welles, 1956; Clinton Heylin Orson Welles versus the Hollywood Studios, 2005; and Frank Brady Citizen Welles 1990; all 1st Editions in complete d/jkts, VG/Fine; no inscriptions. (3)