79 2096 Schumann R and Schumann Wieck C 
79 2096 Schumann R and Schumann Wieck C 
79 2096 Schumann R and Schumann Wieck C 
- Title-p. sl. foxed. Binding worn along extremities; spine-ends dam.
= Title edition of the first edition of this piano adaptation.
Meyerbeer, G. Le Prophète. Paris etc., Brundus & Cie, Troupenas & Cie. a.o., n.d. (±1849), 2nd enl. ed., (2) textp., 442p., lithogr. title-p. and score, contemp. giltlettered green hmor., folio.
- Lithogr. title loose; textp. foxed; most leaves w. waterstain in upper margin affecting the uppermost bar.
AND 1 other: P. VON WINTER, Das unterbrochene Opferfest. Piano adaptation by ? (Braunschw., n.d. (1832), plate no.207, lithogr. frontisp. portrait, title and score, contemp. hcalf w. gilt green letterpiece on frontcover, obl. 8vo. Vaguely dampstained in lower and inner margins; upper joint starting).
79 2097 Snoeck C C 
- Sl. foxed. = Rare catalogue, listing 1145 intruments.
79 2098 Spohr L 
- Bookblock of both vols. almost loose.
79/2099 Strauss Feesten Den Haag 1911 
= Braches 1298-1300 and 1303.
AND ±50 other (music) programs, brochures etc., ±1900-1940, mainly Dutch, partly w. nice art nouveau wr. design (incl. duplicates).
= I.a. programs by De Amsterdamsche Kunstkring "Voor Allen" (in 5 variant wrappers, i.a. 2 diff. designs by N.J. v.d. Vecht), Chr. Oratorium Ver. Amsterdam (Feestuitvoering 20-jarig bestaan, 1905, wr. by Jan Visser), Rembrandt Theater (3 variants), Stadschouwburg Amsterdam (wr. by N. Schrier), Académie Nationale de Musique et de Danse (3 variants) and 2 diff. programs by Paleis voor Volksvlijt.
79 2100 Theatre Jelgerhuis Rz J 
79 2100 Theatre Jelgerhuis Rz J 
- About one third of the plates foxed, otherwise trifle foxed or fine.
= On this important manual for actors, based on a series of 38 lessons that the painter and leading Dutch actor of his time Johannes Jelgerhuis gave during the years 1824 to 1827, see at large the exhibition catalogue Johannes Jelgerhuis Rzn. Acteur-schilder 1770-1836 (1969), p.44-52 and cat. no. 406 (listing only 274 textp. and 79 plates).
79/2101 Theatre Les Spectacles de Paris ou Calendrier Historique & Chronologique des Théâtres continued under various titles Vols 1 20 22 29 31 35 37 38 40 43 
- Without vol. 21, 30, 36 and 39. Extremities sl. worn; contents fine (besides a few contemp. annots.). Good/ fine set.
= An attractively bound, almost continuous, set of almanacs of the Parisian theatre companies (i.a. Académie royale de musique, Opéra-Comique and Comédie-Française). For each theatre, new plays performed during the year, names of the actors, dramatists and musicians in the ensembles, summaries/ excerpts of the plays and anecdotes related to the theatres are listed. From 1792 on, the almanac also includes information about provincial theatres (i.a. in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Nantes). From the library of the 19th-cent. French dramatist Paul Duport (his owner's entry on first free endpaper/ blank of each vol.).
79 2102 Vidal A 
= Very fine copy with a bound-in dedicatory note signed "Frédéric Hillemacher" to "Monsieuir Wekerlin".
BOUND WITH: a section extracted from MILLIN, Les antiquités nationales (...) Section de la rue Beau-Bourg (chapter XLI): Chapelle de S. Julien-des-Menestriers (18p., 2 engr. plates. Both plates sl. waterstained). Préludes historiques sur la Ghilde des Ménestrels de Bruges, suivis de la légende d'une sainte chandelle. Ed. D. van de Casteele. Bruges, Vandecasteele-Werbrouck, 1868, 1st ed., (2),95p., 3 lithogr. plates (1x col.), later hcl. Maitres de chant et organistes de Saint-Donatien et de Saint-Sauveur à Bruges. Ed. D. vande Casteele and E. van der Straeten. Ibid., idem, 1870, 77p., woodengr. title-vignette, later hcl. unif. w. the preceding. - AND 3 others, i.a. A. GENTY (ed.), Chansons sur la régence. Trois chansons attribuées au régent (Paris, 1861, printed in 355 copies, sl. later hcl., sm. 8vo) and M. FÜRSTENAU, Zur Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe der Kurfürsten von Sachsen, Johann Georg II., Johann Georg III. und Johann Georg IV. (Dresden, 1861/ 1862, 2 parts in 1 vol., fold. plate and fold. table, contemp. boards. Contents partly foxed; binding sl. worn along extremities).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
79 2103 Violins Baillot P 
79 2103 Violins Baillot P 
- Foxed (esp. in first half); final 50p. dampstained in outer corners/ right half; margins of several leaves strengthened/ repaired.
Capet, L. La Technique Supérieure de l'Archet. Paris, M. Senart et Cie, 1916, 1st ed., 144p., text printed within decorated border in red, num. music examples, contemp. clothbacked boards w. orig. frontwr. laid down, folio (fine).
79 2104 Violins Coutagne H 
- Sl./ trifle foxed. Orig. wrappers loosely inserted. = Very rare.
79/2105 Violins L'Esposizione di liuteria antica a Cremona nel 1937 A cura del Comitato per la Celebrazione del Bicentenario Stradivariano 
- Fine copy.
= Issued 'to perpetuate the memory' of the exhibition held in 1937 on occasion of the bicentennial of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
79 2106 Violins Fétis F J 
- Partly sl. foxed. Backwr. stain in margin.
79 2107 Violins Gallay J 
79 2107 Violins Gallay J 
79 2107 Violins Gallay J 
- Sl. foxed.
BOUND before: Idem. Les instruments à l'archet à l'exposition universelle de 1867. Paris, Jouaust, 1867, (4),57,(1)p. (fine). Sibire, l'abbé. La Chelonomie ou le parfait luthier. Brussels, A. Loosfelt, 1885, (4),11,(1),VI,227,(2)p., engr. frontisp., contemp. giltlettered hmor., orig. wr. pres.
- Frontisp. and title-p. foxed.
= Third edition (the first edition was published in Paris in 1806 and the second in Brussels in 1823). No copy of any of the editions traced on the market and, as the introductory note to the third edition states: "L'édition de 1823 (...) est aujourd'hui aussi rare que la première." According to the author of this introductory note, Nicolas Lupot was the true author of this work. (...) Apollon (Lupot) dictait et ... Sibire écrivait."
AND 1 other: G. HART, Le violon, ses luthiers célèbres et leurs imitateurs (...). French transl. by A. Royer (Paris, 1886, woodengr. plates and ills., sl. later gilt hmor. Sl. foxed).
79/2108 Violins Geigenzettel alter Meister vom 16 bis zur Mitte des 19 Jahrhundrts Ed P de Wit 
79/2108 Violins Geigenzettel alter Meister vom 16 bis zur Mitte des 19 Jahrhundrts Ed P de Wit 
- A very fine copy. = The plates show a total of 874 violin maker's tickets. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
79 2109 Violins Grillet L 
- Backstrips worn/ dam.
= Remarkable binding, with a small strip of paper bound with at the end of vol.2 on which the binder has written the following cryptic note in pencil: "J'ai commencé la reliure de ce livre le 19 mars 1901. jour de l'annonce du mariage de Marguerita - quelle tristesse."
79 2110 Violins Hamma F 
- Rubbed spot on frontcover. Otherwise fine.
= Copy of the DELUXE edition of 1200 numb. copies bound in vellum backed gilt peau-de-suède w. red mor. letterpiece on spine.
79 2111 Violins Hill W H A F and A E 
- Unnumb. copy. Some light scratches on covers and trifle rubbed along extremities of binding. A fine copy.
79 2112 Violins Hill W H A F and A E 
- Flimsies foxed (occas. causing foxing in outer blank margins of plates). Upper joint starting. Otherwise a fine copy.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
79 2113 Violins Jusupov N B 
- One leaf w. purple inkstain (also affecting the following leaf); sl. foxed.
= Extremely rare monograph, with a second title (preceding the above title) that reads: Luthomonographie. Historique et raisonnée.
79 2114 Violins Kneppelhout J 
= Biography of the young deceased violinist Jan de Graan (1852-1874), containing 23p. w. excerpts from letters written to and by De Graan.
Niederheitmann, F. Cremona. Eine Charakteristik der italienischen Geigenbauer und ihrer Instrumente. Leipsic, C. Merseburger, 1897, 1st ed., VIII,104p., ills., contemp. hcl. Heller, A. H.W. Ernst im Utreile seiner Zeitgenossen. Vienna/ Brünn/ Berlin, the author, 1904, 62,(1)p., frontisp. portrait, plates, orig. giltlettered cl. - AND 5 others on violins and violinists, i.a. H. STARCKE, Die Geige, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung, die Behandlung und Erhaltung aller ihrer Bestandtheile und Meister der Geigen- und Lautenbaukunst mit Angabe aller Zettel-Inschriften (Dresden, 1884, 1st ed., contemp. hcl. Trifle yellowed) and E. SAUZAY, Le violon harmonique, ses ressources, son emploi dans les écoles anciennes et modernes (Paris, 1889, num. music examples, contemp. gilt hcalf).
79 2115 Violins La Laurencie L de 