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Author	Details	Price
NEW LISTING A J Hipkins, M Steinert, and S Schneider Editors Book #2363	The International Exhibition for Music and the Drama Vienna 1892 Vienna Mioritz Perles 1894, 339pp, 82 Heliographes, Elephant folio. Soft covers detached, torn and tatty, disbound, Title page torn, p139 = 135 (misprint), pp42 & 43 torn affecting contents, small tear pp327-340 not affecting contents, the 4pp "index of reproduction" badly torn & tatty This is the official English language catalogue. It was co-edited by English musicologist Alfred J. Hipkins, American instrument collector Morris Steinert, and Viennese instrument maker Siegmund Schneider. The volume documents the massive 1892 Vienna Exhibition, which featured rare historic instruments and helped establish musicology as an institutional academic discipline	£100.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
ANTWERP Belgium Book #1085	Muziek & Grafiek: Burgermoraal en muziek in de 16de- en 17de-eeuwse Nederlanden Exhibition Catalogue, Hessenhuis 29 July - 30 October 1994. 160pp, more than 100 b/w plates. Separate 16pp hand typed (original) English guide through the exhibition. Biograpies of artists. Dust covers. Very good copy	£20.00 (Secondhand)
NEW LISTING Awouters, Tilmans, Meurant Book #2364	Koninklijke Instrumenten - Instruments Royaux 1991. Instrumentenmuseum van Brussels - Musee Instrumental de Bruxelles 28 IX 1991 - 31 V 1992 59pp, a few colour & b/w illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition with the subject "the legacy and relationship of the Belgium dynasty with music" Small square paperback, Dutch and French text	£8.00 (Paper)
BLOIS France Book #1131	Les Instruments de Musique en Ceramique Exhibition Catalogue redige par Claude-Armand Masson avec la collaboration de Martine Tissierde Mallerais , Chateau de Blois 15 December 1984 - 27 January 1985. 127pp, colour & b/w plates, details of makers marks. French text. Paper covers a little worn & grubby, with small tear on top edge. Contents good	£20.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
CHOUQUET GUSTAVE Book #2335	Le Musée du Conservatoire National de Musique 1884 Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie Paris. Nouvelle edition, ornee de figures. xiii + 276pp, large 8vo., b/w illustrations in text. Interesting "Liste des Donateurs" with names like Antoine Courtois, Napoleon Costa, Broadwood, Hector Berlioz, to name a few. Professional quarter leather binding, gilt title on spine, gilt on top edge. 2 small repaired tears on half title, very small tear ( 5mm or less) on the following 4 pages and small tear on pp 224 & 225, none affecting the text. 2 small paper library marks on spine, top and bottom of spine scuffed. Binding tight contents very good. French text	£125.00 (Secondhand)
NEW LISTING COUESNON & Cie Book #2359	GUIDE COUESNON, Catalogue Pochette Couesnon & Cie 1912-1915, Manufacture Generale d'Instruments de Musique Cuivre, Bois, Lutherie, Pianos, Harmoniums Machine Parlantes, Accessoires Divers 8°, 282pp, coloured frontispiece, a few but mostly b/w illustrations of the merchandise sold by Couesnon. Green linen grubby cardboard wrappers; front board, frontispiece & title piece loose, part of spine missing, cracked on spine, pp 159-162, 249 & 250 are missing and replaced by photocopies. French text	£50.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
NEW LISTING COUESNON & Cie Book #2361	Catalogue - Guide Couesnon & Cie Nouvelle Edition After 1918 as a type note has been tipped in (on the inside front wrapper) announcing "Taxe de Luxe", which was introduced in March 1918 296pp, lavishly illustrated a few in colour but mostly b/w. A little cloth bubbling to front board, cracked on spine , pp 254-255 and 270-271 stuck together and pp 267-268 lacking. Contents good French text	£100.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
HALLE AN DER SAALE - GERMANY Book #1300	Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Haendel-Hauses in Halle: 2.Teil, Bildsammlung Portrats 1962. 288pp. fully illustrated, b/w plates. German text. Linen boards, sunned on spine, little yellowing on cut edges, small sellers label.	£12.00 (Secondhand)
HALLE AN DER SAALE - GERMANY Book #1301	Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Haendel-Hauses in Halle: 3. Teil, Bildsammlung Stadte- und Gebaudedarstellungen 1964. 380pp. b/w illustrations of all the prints & 4 paintings. German text. Linen boards, sunned on spine, lightly bumped on lower front corner, light yellowing on cut edges, small sellers label and old price ticket on inside, contents like new	£12.00 (Secondhand)
HALLE AN DER SAALE GERMANY Book #1299	Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Haendel-Hauses in Halle: 1. Teil, Handschriftensammlung 1961. 330pp. 9 b/w illustrations. German text Fairly clean linen boards, very good copy, like new	£10.00 (Secondhand)
NEW LISTING LIGTVOET A W Book #2353	exotische en oude europese muziekinstrumenten exotic and ancient european musical instruments in the Department of Musical History of the Municipal Museum of The Hague n.d. 1962, octavo. 51pp, b/w illustrations. Dutch and English text. Paper, page 35 detached, covers a little worn, small crease top right hand corner, sellers stamp on title page	£8.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
NEW LISTING MAHILLON V CH Book #2360	Catalogue Descriptif & Analytique du Musee Instrumental du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles precede d'un essai de classification methodique de tous les instruments anciens et modernes Gand typographie C. Annoot-Braeckman 1880. 395pp Paper covers dirty & tatty, part of spine missing, part of half title missing, p29, 3 small holes (insects), fringed losses to pp31-48, some foxing but despite outer appearance the text is clean. French text	£50.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
VERMILLION (SD) USA Book #1575	The Shrine to Music Museum: catalogue of the collections Vol.2. Instruments from Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet. 1982, by Th. E. Cross, B.A. 31pp. b/w photos.	£6.00 (Paper)
NEW LISTING Vermillion S D Book #2354	Beethoven & Berlioz Paris & Vienna Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789 - 1848 Catalogue National Music Museum, September 12 - November 2, 2003. Andre P. Larson, Ph. D. / John Koster, A. B. 87pp., beautifully illustrated with colour plates. With dust jacket. Bumped on bottom spine.	£18.00

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NEW LISTING
A J Hipkins, M Steinert, and S Schneider Editors
Book #2363

The International Exhibition for Music and the Drama Vienna 1892 Vienna Mioritz Perles 1894, 339pp, 82 Heliographes,
Elephant folio.
Soft covers detached, torn and tatty, disbound, Title page torn, p139 = 135 (misprint), pp42 & 43 torn affecting contents, small tear pp327-340 not affecting contents, the 4pp "index of reproduction" badly torn & tatty
This is the official English language catalogue. It was co-edited by English musicologist Alfred J. Hipkins, American instrument collector Morris Steinert, and Viennese instrument maker Siegmund Schneider.
The volume documents the massive 1892 Vienna Exhibition, which featured rare historic instruments and helped establish musicology as an institutional academic discipline

£100.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

ANTWERP Belgium
Book #1085

Muziek & Grafiek: Burgermoraal en muziek in de 16de- en 17de-eeuwse Nederlanden Exhibition Catalogue, Hessenhuis 29 July - 30
October 1994. 160pp, more than 100 b/w plates. Separate 16pp hand typed (original) English guide through the exhibition. Biograpies of artists.
Dust covers. Very good copy

£20.00
(Secondhand)

NEW LISTING
Awouters, Tilmans, Meurant
Book #2364

Koninklijke Instrumenten - Instruments Royaux 1991. Instrumentenmuseum van Brussels - Musee Instrumental de Bruxelles 28 IX 1991 - 31 V 1992
59pp, a few colour & b/w illustrations.
Catalogue of an exhibition with the subject "the legacy and relationship of the Belgium dynasty with music"
Small square paperback, Dutch and French text

£8.00 (Paper)

BLOIS France
Book #1131

Les Instruments de Musique en Ceramique Exhibition Catalogue redige par Claude-Armand Masson avec la collaboration de Martine Tissierde Mallerais , Chateau de Blois 15 December 1984 - 27 January 1985. 127pp, colour & b/w plates, details of makers marks. French text.
Paper covers a little worn & grubby, with small tear on top edge. Contents good

£20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

CHOUQUET GUSTAVE
Book #2335

Le Musée du Conservatoire National de Musique 1884 Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie Paris. Nouvelle edition, ornee de figures. xiii + 276pp, large 8vo., b/w illustrations in text. Interesting "Liste des Donateurs" with names like Antoine Courtois, Napoleon Costa, Broadwood, Hector Berlioz, to name a few. Professional quarter leather binding, gilt title on spine, gilt on top edge. 2 small repaired tears on half title, very small tear ( 5mm or less) on the following 4 pages and small tear on pp 224 & 225, none affecting the text. 2 small paper library marks on spine, top and bottom of spine scuffed. Binding tight contents very good. French text

£125.00
(Secondhand)

NEW LISTING
COUESNON & Cie
Book #2359

GUIDE COUESNON, Catalogue Pochette Couesnon & Cie 1912-1915, Manufacture Generale d'Instruments de Musique Cuivre, Bois, Lutherie, Pianos, Harmoniums Machine Parlantes, Accessoires Divers
8°, 282pp, coloured frontispiece, a few but mostly b/w illustrations of the merchandise sold by Couesnon.
Green linen grubby cardboard wrappers; front board, frontispiece & title piece loose, part of spine missing, cracked on spine, pp 159-162, 249 & 250 are missing and replaced by photocopies. French text

£50.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

NEW LISTING
COUESNON & Cie
Book #2361

Catalogue - Guide
Couesnon & Cie
Nouvelle Edition After 1918 as a type note has been tipped in (on the inside front wrapper) announcing "Taxe de Luxe", which was introduced in March 1918
296pp, lavishly illustrated a few in colour but mostly b/w.
A little cloth bubbling to front board, cracked on spine , pp 254-255 and 270-271 stuck together
and pp 267-268 lacking.
Contents good
French text

£100.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

HALLE AN DER SAALE - GERMANY
Book #1300

Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Haendel-Hauses in Halle: 2.Teil, Bildsammlung Portrats 1962. 288pp. fully illustrated, b/w plates. German text.
Linen boards, sunned on spine, little yellowing on cut edges, small sellers label.

£12.00
(Secondhand)

HALLE AN DER SAALE - GERMANY
Book #1301

Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Haendel-Hauses in Halle: 3. Teil, Bildsammlung Stadte- und Gebaudedarstellungen 1964. 380pp. b/w illustrations of all the prints & 4 paintings. German text.
Linen boards, sunned on spine, lightly bumped on lower front corner, light yellowing on cut edges, small sellers label and old price ticket on inside, contents like new

£12.00
(Secondhand)

HALLE AN DER SAALE GERMANY
Book #1299

Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Haendel-Hauses in Halle: 1. Teil, Handschriftensammlung 1961. 330pp. 9 b/w illustrations. German text
Fairly clean linen boards, very good copy, like new

£10.00
(Secondhand)

NEW LISTING
LIGTVOET A W
Book #2353

exotische en oude europese muziekinstrumenten
exotic and ancient european musical instruments
in the Department of Musical History of the Municipal Museum of The Hague n.d. 1962, octavo. 51pp, b/w illustrations. Dutch and English text.
Paper, page 35 detached, covers a little worn, small crease top right hand corner, sellers stamp on title page

£8.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

NEW LISTING
MAHILLON V CH
Book #2360

Catalogue Descriptif & Analytique du Musee Instrumental du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles
precede d'un essai de classification methodique de tous les instruments anciens et modernes Gand typographie C. Annoot-Braeckman 1880. 395pp
Paper covers dirty & tatty, part of spine missing, part of half title missing, p29, 3 small holes (insects), fringed losses to pp31-48, some foxing but despite outer appearance the text is clean. French text

£50.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

VERMILLION (SD) USA
Book #1575

The Shrine to Music Museum: catalogue of the collections Vol.2. Instruments from Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet. 1982, by Th. E. Cross, B.A. 31pp. b/w photos.

£6.00 (Paper)

NEW LISTING
Vermillion S D
Book #2354

Beethoven & Berlioz Paris & Vienna
Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789 - 1848 Catalogue National Music Museum, September 12 - November 2, 2003.
Andre P. Larson, Ph. D. / John Koster, A. B.
87pp., beautifully illustrated with colour plates.
With dust jacket. Bumped on bottom spine.

£18.00

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