Travel, Atlases & Topography Maps, Prints & Antiquarian Books The Anthony Gasson Opera Collection Part I

* Bayreuth Festival - Parsifal. A group of twenty-nine albumen print cabinet cards of female performers from of Parsifal, c. 1880s/1890s, all dep...

* Bayreuth Festival - Parsifal. A group of twenty-nine album print cabinet cards of male performers in Parsifal, c. 1880s/1890s, including eight ...

Broadside. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, broadside promoting performances of Marriage of Figaro, Fidelio and Euryanthe, staring Madame Malibran, ...

Broadsides. A collection of thirteen broadsides mainly promoting the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, but also the Lyceum, featuring performances of Ac...

* Buckingham Palace. A group of thirteen souvenier printed concert programmes for gala performances given at Buckingham Palace, June-July, 1890-1...

* Buckingham Palace. A group of ten printed souvenier programmes for gala concerts given at Buckingham Palace, June-July 1880-1887, featuring per...

* Buckingham Palace. A group of six souvenier programmers for gala concerts given at Buckingham palace, and one for Marlborough House, 1865-1879,...

* Carpentier (Gustave, 1860-1956). Autograph postcard signed, ?G Carpentier?, stamp postmarked Etretat, 5 December 1918, to Madame Chatelin, a br...

* Caruso (Enrico, 1873-1921). Autograph letter signed, ?Enrico Caruso?, Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, 18 December 1914, to the New Zealand-born ...

* Costa (Michael, 1808-1884). Ebony baton with presentation inscription in Italian, which translated reads: ?This that will make time flow faster...

* Covent Garden Opera. A substantial and informative archive of 146 autograph letters addressed to Martin Cawood, secretary of the English Opera ...

[Royal Opera House.] Royal Italian Opera Prospectuses, 1866 to 1887 [so title on upper cover], comprising seventeen prospectuses of the twenty-tw...

* Covent Garden. Programme of the Gala Performance by Command of His Majesty the King in Honour of the Visit of Their Majesties the King and Quee...

* Covent Garden. In Celebration of The Centenary of The Royal Opera House and in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. the Duke of Edi...

* Covent Garden. A collection of four silk programmes for Gala Performances, 1903-1908, fringed printed silk, all with decorative colour border, ...

* Covent Garden. State Visit to the Opera, Tuesday, July 2nd, 1889, By Command of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, in Honour of His Majesty T...

* Covent Garden. A group of seven printed posters promoting the Italian opera season at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in Autumn 1907, inclu...

* Delibes (Leo, 1836-1891). Autograph Letter Signed, ?Leo Delibes?, Paris, Saturday 12 November [1887], to an unnamed theatre director concerning...

* Donizetti (Gaetano, 1797-1848). Autograph letter signed, ?Gaeton Donizetti?, 11th December [1839], in French, to an unidentified male singer, t...

* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). Incomplete autograph letter signed, ?Edward Elgar?, n.d., the final page thanking the correspondent for telling him ...

* Ferrier (Kathleen, 1912-1953). Signed vintage photograph by James Abresch, New York, c. 1950, gelatin silver print, head-and-shoulders portrait...

* Flagstad (Kirsten, 1895-1962). Autograph letter signed, ?Kirsten Flagstad not Hagstad?, n.d., to Henry G. Porter, in English, apologising for t...

* Gheorghiu (Angela, 1965-). A Royal Opera House poster for the 2004 performance of Faust, colour reproduction poster, showing Gheorghiu as Margu...

* Gigli (Beniamino, 1880-1957). Signed photo of the Italian tenor as Don Alvaro in ?Forza del Destino? at La Scala, Milan, captioned in the negat...

Glyndebourne Festival Opera. A collection of festival programmes, many covers specially commissioned by leading artists, 1952-2003, some duplicat...

* Gounod (Charles, 1818-1893). Autograph letter signed, ?Ch. Gounod?, 6 July 1880, to an unnamed friend, recommending to his benevolent interest ...

* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). Autograph letter signed, ?M.F. Malibran?, 27 July 1829, to Madame de Boutelles in Paris, in French, translating as...

* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). An intimate autograph letter, signed ?Maria?, 23 March 1830, in French, slightly flirtatious in tone, Malibran ope...

* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). Autograph letter signed ?Mariquita?, Naples, 16 December 1833, to Mrs Merlin, in French, apologising for the long ...

* Massenet (Jules, 1842-1912). Autograph musical quotation signed ?Massenet? and inscribed to Eduan(?) Dworzak, Paris, 3 July 1899, one bar from ...

* Massenet (Jules, 1842-1912). Autograph letter signed ?J. Massenet?, Paris, 14 October, [1884], to E[rnest] Reyer, written in French on verso of...

* Massenet (Jules, 1842-1912). Autograph letter signed, 20 June, no place and no year, in French, and to an unidentified recipient, thanking him ...

* Melba (Nellie, 1859-1931). Signed cabinet card by Walery, albumen print laid on card with photographer?s printed details beneath and to card ve...

* Meyerbeer (Giacomo, 1791-1864). Autograph letter signed, ?Meyerbeer?, [Paris, 1835?], to Emil Deschamps, in French, addressing him as his dear ...

* Meyerbeer (Giacomo, 1791-1864). Autograph letter signed, ?Giacomo Meyerbeer?, Berlin, 12 July 1840, to Franz Tesca in Magduburg in German, tell...

* Meyerbeer (Giacomo, 1791-1864). Autograph letter signed, ?Meyerbeer?, n.d., to Gilbert Duprez, in French, saying that the intendant of the Thea...

* Nadar (Felix, 1820-1910). A group of four cabinet card photo portraits of mezzo-sopranos, c. 1900, including Lucy Arbel as Queen Amahelli (Mass...

* Nilsson (Christine, 1843-1921). Autograph letter signed, 7 Kensington Court, Kensington Palace, W, n.d., in full, ?Dear Sir, Of course I intend...

* Offenbach (Jacques, 1819-1880). Autograph letter signed, ?Jacques Offenbach?, 6 October 1874, to Madame de Caux(?) saying that his wife and chi...

* Programme. A souvenier printed programme on silk, and a souvenier Book of Words for the visit of the German Emporer & Empress to the Royal Ital...

Programme. Souvenir printed programme on silk and printed study score for the state performance at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in honour of the...

* Puccini (Giacomo, 1858-1924). Vintage signed postcard, c. 1905, head and shoulders real photo postcard, signed and dated vertically downwards e...

* Puccini (Giacomo, 1858-1924). A long and fine autograph letter initialled ?G.P.?, letterhead of Grand Hotel des Thermes, Bagni di Lucca, 15 Jul...

* Rossini (Gioacchino, 1792-1868). Autograph letter signed, ?G. Rossini?, Paris, 10 September 1843, to his lawyer Filippo Santocanale in Palermo,...

Rossini (Gioachino). Printed funeral invitation, Paris, [1868], inviting the unnamed recipient to be part of the convoy, service and burial of Gi...

* Saint-Saens (Camille, 1835-1921). Autograph letter signed, ?C. Saint-Saens?, no date, (envelope postmarked Paris, 3 October, 1893), to the comp...

* Sanderson (Sibyl, 1865-1904). Albumen print cabinet card of Sanderson as ?Esclarmond? in Massenet?s opera of that name, signed and inscribed by...

* Scotti (Antonio, 1866-1936). Large vintage photogravure portrait of the barotone as Scarpia, oval image on white card with old water stain tide...

Stravinsky (Igor, 1882-1971). Signed programme from Stravinsky?s performance at the piano, VIII Concerto Sinfonico dell?Orchestra del Teatro al L...

* Sullivan (Arthur, 1842-1900). Autograph letter signed, ?Arthur S. Sullivan?, 8 Albert Mansions, SW, 4 September 1873, to Mr Ryan excusing for n...

* Sutherland (Joan, 1926-2010). Royal Opera House Poster for 1978 production of Anna Bolena, dedication in silver by Joan Sutherland to Anthony G...

* Tauber (Richard, 1891-1948). Fine studio photographic portrait, circa 1930, sepia-toned platinum print, showing the Austrian tenor half length ...

* Tetrazzini (Luisa, 1871-1940). A magnificent large full-length portrait of the Italian soprano in the lead role as Lakme [opera by Leo Delibes]...

* Tetrazzini (Luisa, 1871-1940). Fine full-length portrait in costume by Terkelson & Henry, San Francisco, California, c. 1912, carbon print of t...

* Tippett (Michael, 1905-1998). Autograph letter signed, ?Michael Tippett?, Whitegates Cottage, Oxted, Surrey, 7th May 1946, to Mr [John] Ward th...

* Verdi (Giuseppe, 1813-1901). Autograph letter signed, ?G. Verdi?, no date, envelope postmarked Busseto, 23 October 1887, to his friend the engi...

* Wagner (Richard, 1813-1883). Autograph letter signed, ?Richard Wagner?, Dresden, 14 April 1848, to Herr Hiebendahl, asking him for a loan of on...

* [Wagner]. An autograph letter signed from Walter Bache concerning the first London performance of an opera by Wagner (?The Flying Dutchman?), 5...

Handel (George Frideric). Messiah. An Oratorio: as it is Perform?d at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, Set to Musick by Mr. Handel, Printed fo...

Handel (George Frideric, 1685-1759). Handel?s Sixty Overtures from All His Operas and Oratorios set for the Harpsicord or Organ ..., printed for ...