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OPERAS. -- Emmanuel CHABRIER. L'Etoile . Paris: Enoch, plate no.258, [1877]. 8°, piano-vocal score, FIRST EDITION, first issue. - Léo DELIBES. Jean de Nivelle . Paris: Huegel, plate no.5065, [1880]. 8°, piano-vocal score, FIRST EDITION of the second version, with autograph signed inscription. - Vincent d'INDY. Fervaal . Paris: Durand, plate no.4966, [1895]. 2°, piano-vocal score, with autograph signed inscription. - Felix MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY. Finale des ersten Aktes aus der unvollendeten Oper Loreley . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, plate no.8436, [1852]. 2°, full score, FIRST EDITION. - Giacomo MEYERBEER. Le Prophète . Paris: Brandus & Troupenas, plate no.5103-5108, [1849]. 2°, piano-vocal score, FIRST EDITION, first issue of the first version and Les Huguenots , FIRST EDITION. - Bedrich SMETANA. Hubicka [The Kiss] . Prague: Urbánek, plate no.24, [1880]. 2°, piano-vocal score, FIRST EDITION, first issue. - Louis SPOHR. Zemire und Azor . Hamburg: Cranz, [1821]. Oblong 2°, piano reduction, FIRST EDITION. - Gaspare SPONTINI. La Vestale , Paris: Erard, plate no.700, [circa 1807-8]. 2°, full score, FIRST EDITION. - Hugo WOLF. Der Corregidor . Mannheim: Heckel, [1896]. 2°, piano-vocal score, FIRST EDITION. - Fromental HALEVY. La Reine de Chypre . Paris: Schlesinger, plate no.3590,3556, [1841]. 2°, piano version arranged by WAGNER, FIRST EDITION; and two others (Charles GOUNOD. Polyeucte, Airs de ballet . Inscribed by Lemoine. - Carl MILLÖCKER. Couplet aus dem Lebensbilde , proofs). Various contemporary and later bindings. A nice collection of mainly first editions of operas by some of the most renowned operatic composers of the nineteenth century, several signed and inscribed. (14)