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Inscribed by author, former Italian ambassador to Washington, this is a lecture that he was invited to give in late 1903 at several Chambers of Commerce of the Kingdom to demonstrate the advantage that Italian arts and industries would receive by…

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This copy of the celebrated study by Mayor des Planches (b. Turin, 1851; d. Rome, 1920), written during his years in the U.S., is inscribed by the author to a baronessa. During his travels across the U.S., while ambassador to Washington from…

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This later edition, the most commonly available one (dated 1965), lacks the biographical entry at the outset, the ads at the end, and most of the Italian-language material. However, it does contain Caruso’s letters in the Italian original,…

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This is the rare first edition of a series of editions of this popular collection of caricatures drawn by the great Neapolitan tenor, Enrico Caruso (b. Naples, 1873; d. Naples, 1921). La Follia di New York published Caruso’s caricatures in individual…
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