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Description:
Sheet Music Collection, 1870s. Forty-four sheet music pieces, bound together in a contemporary half-leather binding, including: Gen. Robert E. Lee Quick March, by Charles Young; Pridham's Alpine Waltzes; Crowe's Saucy Kate; Popular German Waltzes for the Pianoforte by Strauss; Schubert's Les Dames de Seville; Charles Kinkel's Memories of the Past; The Galatea Waltz; Saylor's Chicago Fire-Bells; Bayley's La Belle Canadienne; The Battle of Manassas for the Piano by Blind Tom; Edwin Christie's The Angels are Coming; The Skidmore Guard by Harrigan & Hart; and others, several with lithographic illustrated covers, some chromolithographs; the book bound in Canada and many items marked with stamps of Canadian vendors, with a label on the front board reading "Carrie," 13 x 10 1/8 in.
Estimate $200-300
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Keywords
Robert E. Lee, Charles Young, Edwin Christie, Belle Canadienne, Charles Kinkel, Chicago, SevilleJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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