Alberto Bachmann.  Les Grands Violonistes du Passe.  Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1913.  13x9 inches; vi, 468pp, illustrated.  Printed on heavy glazed stock.  Heavy buckram covers, with reinforced hinges that actually make the book usable (given its weight-to-dimension impressiveness).  That said, this is an ex-library book, with semi-erased  call numbers at the bottom of the spine; library name stamped at page edges, and a perforated stamp on the title page.  Really, though this is not so bad as it might sound, being a nice, very sturdy copy of a very scarce book. 

 

 

Includes appreciations of  Alard, Baillot, de Bériot, Corelli, Dancla, David, Ernst, Fiorillo, Gaviniès, Geminiani, Habeneck, Halir, Joachim, Krasselt, Kreutzer, Lafont, Laub, Leclair, Léonard, Lipinsky, Locatelli, Mestrino, Milanollo, Nardini, Neruda, Paganini, Pugnani, Rode, Sarasate, Sivori, Spohr, Somis, Stamitz, Tartini, Veracini, Vieuxtemps, Viotti, Vivaldi, Wieniawsky, and Wilhelmj.

$200

Bachmann is also the author of the Encyclopedia of the Violin.