Books

Author	Details	Price
RIDLEY E A K Book #2283	The Ridley Collection of Musical Wind Instruments in Luton Museum 1957. 32pp. + 8pp b/w illustrations	£10.00 (Paper)
HAMMERICH A Book #2285	Das Musikhistorische Museum zu Kopenhagen Beschreibender Katalog Kopenhagen 1911. Deutsch von Erna Bobé, mit 179 Illustrationen. 172pp, b/w illustrations in text, Personenregister & Sachregister. Spine & front cover lightly sunned, small crease in back cover, front cover and half title, binding sound, contents clean. German text	£40.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
YOUNG PH T Book #2278	Loan Exhibition of Historic Double Reed Instruments University of Victoria (Canada), August 1988. 91pp, 77 double reed instruments illustrated with descriptions including measurements & details of makers	£20.00 (Paper)
SCHMUTZIG W Book #2275	Incomplete Method für die Holzblasinstrumente. Schmutzig series no II Cor publishing Co, A E Goldstein 1951. 20pp, b/w illustrations. Very good copy	£14.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
SACHS C Book #2265	Sammlung Alter Musikinstrumente bei der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin. Beschreibender Katalog Im Verlag von Julius Bard Berlin 1922. VI + 383pp (text) + 50pp (b/w plates). Rebound, brown linen boards with gilt lettering on spine. Small private library? paper label on spine. Corners lightly bumped. German text. A rare book	£350.00 (Secondhand)
Couesnon et Cie Book #2260	Manufacture Générale d'Instruments de Musique Cuivres, Bois, Lutherie, Pianos, Harmoniums, Machines Parlantes, Accessoires Divers 1911, Trade Catalogue. 282pp, coloured frontis-piece, numerous b/w illustrations of players and instruments, 15 Marches & Refrains de l'Armée Française. 8° Cracked on spine, corners bumped, spine detached. French text.	£75.00 (Secondhand)
Edinburgh Book #2257	Proceedings of the Clarinet and Woodwind Colloquium 2007, celebrating the collection of Sir Nicholas Shackleton 2012 Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Insrtruments. Edited by Arnold Myers. Papers presented at the meeting organised by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments , 22-24 June 2007. 270pp, colour & b/w illustrations, graphs and drawings in text.	£40.00
WATERHOUSE WILLIAM Book #2223	Tutor Chart Etude A Critical Bibliography of Historical Teaching Material for Bassoon to 1900 2012 Edited and with a Foreword by James B Kopp. :"How did the bassoon evolve, and how did early players go about learning it? Written tutors, fingering charts and etudes reveal the instrument's design, capabilities and performance practise during a period of more than 200 years. William Waterhouse spent decades accumulating information on these works and the full results of his researches are published here for the first time".	£10.00 (Paper)
GILLIAM L E / LICHTENWANGER W (EDITORS) Book #2029	The Dayton C Miller Flute Collection A Checklist of the Instruments 1961. The Library of Congress, Washington. 115 + vi pp, b/w plates. paper covers yellowed and soiled, spine darkened, a small faint damage to frontispiece, binding tight, contents clean	£15.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
DEN HAAG HOLLAND Book #1751	Muziek voor het oog / Music for the eye 2003. This book shows in photographes more than 50 of the best pieces of the music collection of the Gemeentemuseum. The choice includes all sort of musical instruments as well as prints from the 16th to the 19th century. 191pp, colour- and b/w plates. Dutch and English text.	£23.00 (Paper)
ZIMMERMAN DR. J. Book #1749	Von Zinken Flöten und Schalmeien. Katalog einer Sammlung historischer Holzblasinstrumente. Mit einem Geleitwort von Prof. Dr. A. Berner. 1967? 125pp, b/w plates. With bibliographies of makers, German text. Very good copy.	£50.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
Vermillion (SD) USA Book #1700	Beethoven & Berlioz Paris & Vienna Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789 - 1848 Catalogue National Music Museum, September 12 - November 2, 2003. André P. Larson, Ph. D. / John Koster, A. B. 87pp., colour plates.	£20.00 (Paper)
LESCAT / SAINT-ARROMAN. P / J (Editors) Book #1010	Basson; Méthodes et Traités ,Dictionnaires, Méthodes & Traités 4, Série I, France 1600-1800, 1999. 136pp. facsimiles. French text.	£25.00 (Paper)
BEVAN C Book #1121	Musical Instrument Collections in the British Isles 1990. 127pp, 47 b/w photos, details of almost one hundred collections open to the public.	£8.50 (Paper)
DEGGENDORF Germany Book #1208	Musikinstrumente aus Ostbayern (Niederbayern / Oberpfalz) vom 17-19 Jh. Exhibition Catalogue Stadtmuseum 13 November 1992 - 31. January 1993. 176pp, colour & b/w plates. German text	£18.00 (Paper)
EDINBURGH Book #1249	The Proud Bassoon By W. Waterhouse. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 17th - 31st August 1983. The Waterhouse Collection of bassoons and related items showing the development of the bassoon over the centuries. 56pp. b/w photos of 28 instruments	£8.00 (Paper)
GIANNINI TULA Book #1281	Great Flute Makers of France: the Lot and Godfroy Families, 1650-1900 1993. 271pp. 98 b/w plates with over a hundred photos of flutes from public and private collections: 60 illustrations of archival documents. An important and original contribution to the history of the flute, based on primary source material. Lists serial numbers and dates of Louis Lot flutes,	£40.00 More Pages
LONDON Book #1398	Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments Catalogue, Part 1, European Wind Instruments 1982. Catalogue by E.A.K. Ridley. 68pp, 84 (of 196 listed) instruments illustrated in b/w	£7.00 (Paper)
WOODCROFT B Editor Book #1408	Patents for Inventions: Abridgements of Specifications relating to Music & Musical Instruments, A.D. 1694-1866 1984 Facsimile of 1871 Edition. 520pp. with abridgements of all 740 English patents issued before 1867.	£27.00 More Pages
VICTORIA Canada Book #1579	Loan Exhibition of Historic Double Reed Instruments 1988, by Ph.Young. University of Victoria. 91pp, 77 double reed instruments illustrated with descriptions including measurements & details of makers	£20.00 (Paper)
WATERHOUSE William Book #1584	The New Langwill Index: A dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers & Inventors. 1993. 555pp. Entries for nearly 6500 makers & inventors active until c.1950. Awarded the C.B.Oldham Prize by IAML (UK) as the best British work of Music Librarianship, Reference or Bibliography for 1993.	£60.00 More Pages
YOUNG P T Book #1601	4900 Historical Woodwind Instruments: An Inventory of 200 Makers in International Collections 1993. 338pp. With information from over 700 collections, with bibliography of 150 cited photo sources.	£60.00 More Pages

Author

Details

Price

RIDLEY E A K
Book #2283

The Ridley Collection of Musical Wind Instruments in Luton Museum 1957. 32pp. + 8pp b/w illustrations

£10.00 (Paper)

HAMMERICH A
Book #2285

Das Musikhistorische Museum zu Kopenhagen
Beschreibender Katalog Kopenhagen 1911. Deutsch von Erna Bobé, mit 179 Illustrationen. 172pp, b/w illustrations in text, Personenregister & Sachregister. Spine & front cover lightly sunned, small crease in back cover, front cover and half title, binding sound, contents clean. German text

£40.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

YOUNG PH T
Book #2278

Loan Exhibition of Historic Double Reed Instruments University of Victoria (Canada), August 1988. 91pp, 77 double reed instruments illustrated with descriptions including measurements & details of makers

£20.00 (Paper)

SCHMUTZIG W
Book #2275

Incomplete Method für die Holzblasinstrumente. Schmutzig series no II Cor publishing Co, A E Goldstein 1951. 20pp, b/w illustrations. Very good copy

£14.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

SACHS C
Book #2265

Sammlung Alter Musikinstrumente bei der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin.
Beschreibender Katalog Im Verlag von Julius Bard Berlin 1922. VI + 383pp (text) + 50pp (b/w plates). Rebound, brown linen boards with gilt lettering on spine. Small private library? paper label on spine. Corners lightly bumped. German text. A rare book

£350.00
(Secondhand)

Couesnon et Cie
Book #2260

Manufacture Générale d'Instruments de Musique
Cuivres, Bois, Lutherie, Pianos, Harmoniums, Machines Parlantes, Accessoires Divers 1911, Trade Catalogue. 282pp, coloured frontis-piece, numerous b/w illustrations of players and instruments, 15 Marches & Refrains de l'Armée Française. 8°
Cracked on spine, corners bumped, spine detached.
French text.

£75.00
(Secondhand)

Edinburgh
Book #2257

Proceedings of the Clarinet and Woodwind Colloquium 2007, celebrating the collection of Sir Nicholas Shackleton 2012 Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Insrtruments. Edited by Arnold Myers.
Papers presented at the meeting organised by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments , 22-24 June 2007. 270pp, colour & b/w illustrations, graphs and drawings in text.

£40.00

WATERHOUSE WILLIAM
Book #2223

Tutor Chart Etude
A Critical Bibliography of Historical Teaching Material for Bassoon to 1900 2012 Edited and with a Foreword by James B Kopp.
:"How did the bassoon evolve, and how did early players go about learning it? Written tutors, fingering charts and etudes reveal the instrument's design, capabilities and performance practise during a period of more than 200 years. William Waterhouse spent decades accumulating information on these works and the full results of his researches are published here for the first time".

£10.00 (Paper)

GILLIAM L E / LICHTENWANGER W (EDITORS)
Book #2029

The Dayton C Miller Flute Collection
A Checklist of the Instruments 1961. The Library of Congress, Washington. 115 + vi pp, b/w plates. paper covers yellowed and soiled, spine darkened, a small faint damage to frontispiece, binding tight, contents clean

£15.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

DEN HAAG HOLLAND
Book #1751

Muziek voor het oog / Music for the eye 2003. This book shows in photographes more than 50 of the best pieces of the music collection of the Gemeentemuseum. The choice includes all sort of musical instruments as well as prints from the 16th to the 19th century. 191pp, colour- and b/w plates. Dutch and English text.

£23.00 (Paper)

ZIMMERMAN DR. J.
Book #1749

Von Zinken Flöten und Schalmeien. Katalog einer Sammlung historischer Holzblasinstrumente. Mit einem Geleitwort von Prof. Dr. A. Berner. 1967?
125pp, b/w plates. With bibliographies of makers,
German text. Very good copy.

£50.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

Vermillion (SD) USA
Book #1700

Beethoven & Berlioz Paris & Vienna
Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789 - 1848 Catalogue National Music Museum, September 12 - November 2, 2003.
André P. Larson, Ph. D. / John Koster, A. B.
87pp., colour plates.

£20.00 (Paper)

LESCAT / SAINT-ARROMAN. P / J (Editors)
Book #1010

Basson; Méthodes et Traités ,Dictionnaires, Méthodes & Traités 4, Série I, France 1600-1800, 1999. 136pp. facsimiles. French text.

£25.00 (Paper)

BEVAN C
Book #1121

Musical Instrument Collections in the British Isles 1990. 127pp, 47 b/w photos, details of almost one hundred collections open to the public.

£8.50 (Paper)

DEGGENDORF Germany
Book #1208

Musikinstrumente aus Ostbayern (Niederbayern / Oberpfalz) vom 17-19 Jh. Exhibition Catalogue Stadtmuseum 13 November 1992 - 31. January 1993. 176pp, colour & b/w plates. German text

£18.00 (Paper)

EDINBURGH
Book #1249

The Proud Bassoon By W. Waterhouse. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 17th - 31st August 1983. The Waterhouse Collection of bassoons and related items showing the development of the bassoon over the centuries. 56pp. b/w photos of 28 instruments

£8.00 (Paper)

GIANNINI TULA
Book #1281

Great Flute Makers of France: the Lot and Godfroy Families, 1650-1900 1993. 271pp. 98 b/w plates with over a hundred photos of flutes from public and private collections: 60 illustrations of archival documents. An important and original contribution to the history of the flute, based on primary source material. Lists serial numbers and dates of Louis Lot flutes,

£40.00

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LONDON
Book #1398

Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments Catalogue, Part 1, European Wind Instruments 1982. Catalogue by E.A.K. Ridley. 68pp, 84 (of 196 listed) instruments illustrated in b/w

£7.00 (Paper)

WOODCROFT B Editor
Book #1408

Patents for Inventions: Abridgements of Specifications relating to Music & Musical Instruments, A.D. 1694-1866 1984 Facsimile of 1871 Edition. 520pp. with abridgements of all 740 English patents issued before 1867.

£27.00

More Pages

VICTORIA Canada
Book #1579

Loan Exhibition of Historic Double Reed Instruments 1988, by Ph.Young. University of Victoria. 91pp, 77 double reed instruments illustrated with descriptions including measurements & details of makers

£20.00 (Paper)

WATERHOUSE William
Book #1584

The New Langwill Index: A dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers & Inventors. 1993. 555pp. Entries for nearly 6500 makers & inventors active until c.1950. Awarded the C.B.Oldham Prize by IAML (UK) as the best British work of Music Librarianship, Reference or Bibliography for 1993.

£60.00

More Pages

YOUNG P T
Book #1601

4900 Historical Woodwind Instruments: An Inventory of 200 Makers in International Collections 1993. 338pp. With information from over 700 collections, with bibliography of 150 cited photo sources.

£60.00

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