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DIAZ Y COMAS (VICENTE) Album Regio, [Havana, Litografia del Progresso, 1855]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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DIAZ Y COMAS (VICENTE) Album Regio, lithographed portrait, tinted lithographed allegorical title, letterpress dedication to Isabella II, Queen of Spain, hand-coloured lithographed genealogy of the Bourbons, and 75 plates, each with the hand-coloured arms of one of the Spanish territories set above a stanza of music, each within a decorative pictorial border, publisher's green cloth, the upper cover gilt-lettered 'Album Regio' beneath a crown, slightly rubbed, folio (340 x 255mm.), [Havana, Litografia del Progresso, 1855]

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Rare work printed in Cuba. Diaz y de Comas was a Spanish doctor and composer, who settled in Havana. The Album Regio contains musical compositions in styles ranging from polkas to contradanza, including "a few valses that soon conquered salons throughout Havana" (Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, vol.9, p.904). Each page is decorated with the hand-coloured arms of the territories of the Spanish crown, from the home regions to Cuba, the Philippines and the West Indies. The author was travelling to Spain to present a copy to Isabel II, the dedicatee, but he was drowned en route when his ship sank.

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