(CARTES-DE-VISITE.)

MUSICIANS, OPERA SINGERS, AND STARS OF THE FRENCH STAGE. Album containing 52 cartes-de-visite portraits, each identified, of leading musicians and stage personages that features SARAH BERNHARDT, GIUSEPPE VERDI, GIACOMO ROSSINI, DANIEL FRANCOIS AUBER, GIOVANNI MATTEO MARIO, ENRICO DELLE SEDIE, ADELINA PATTI, CHRISTINE NILLSON, and many others by several principal photographers of the day, including DISDERI, CARJAT, and NADAR. Oblong 8vo, leather, richly blindstamped with elaborate brass clasps; all edges gilt. 1860s (AN OPERA ALBUM WITH SARAH BERNHARDT) A Who's Who of leading musicians and theatrical personalities active in the Paris Opera-Comique, the Paris Opera, the Theatre des Boufes, the Theatre des Varietes, the Theatre Gaiete, and the Port St. Martin.