Thoinan, Ernest - Autograph Letter Signed [PHOTOGRAPHY] shown with a baton

shown with a baton

The first photograph is 6

Also included: unsigned photo

and recitals during a career which lasted for more than four decades

four written pages each

Thoinan, Ernest - Autograph Letter Signed [PHOTOGRAPHY] shown with a batonFrench musicologist (1827 1894) and bibliophile, one of the first to study French music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Autograph letter in French (untranslated) signed by him, no date [ probably Paris, 1861 ca.], where he addresses a gentleman, concerning the renown engraver Firmin Gillot, inventor of the printing method based on relief photo engraving known as "Gillotage": " Je ne puis vous envoyer mon homme car il ne se drangera pas. C'est lui qui