Books on Music Theory and the Violin

Fridolin Hamma.  Mesiter Deutscher Geigenbaukunst.  Stuttgart, Schuler-Gerlag, 1948. Limited edition, #747/1200.  12x10 inches; 69pp plus 66 full-page plates of photographs of violins. 

Very nice copy, well constructed and designed, with a vellum-like spine, leather label, and decorated linen covers.  This is an ex-library copy, with library stamps on the page edge top and bottom. with a few scant markings in the interior.  

$175.00

 

 

 

 

 

Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (1773-1850) Die Musik der Araber nach Originalquellen  Dargestellt...with a foreward by Freiherrn von Hammer-Purgstall.  Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von Breitkoppf und Haertel, 1842.  12x9 inches; xix, 96pp, plus 24 full page engravings (on both sides of a sheet, making 12 leaves in all, plus errata sheet. 

With "six illustrations in the text and notes pages xxiv-inserts, which Tonformeln the ancient authors, it now contains some viable folk tunes and songs..."

Original printed wrappers, bound in 1940's library buckram.  Nice, crisp copy, and ex-library:  library named stamped at page edges top and bottom, bookplate on the front pastedown and also on the verso of the printed wrapper, perforated library stamps on the title page, page 15, and also on the rear page.  That said, this is a nice copy.   $200

This is a pioneering work in musicology, an early attempt in occidental understanding.  The work includes an historical overview, and then chapters on scale, different modes, rate & rhythm, and then on instruments and harmony, plus an assessment of the Persian_Arabic musical system, not to mention the  a look at the contemporary music of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins. 

 

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.

 

Illustrated History of Cremonese Violins, with Folding Diagrams

BAUMAN, Jindrich. Cremona housle a jejich stavb.  Kladno: Josefa Solce, 1899.  8vo. text & 4to. atlas: pp. 1 plate,  x, 191pp;  plus Atlas volume of   [5pp], then 23 folding plates (folding once) of famous violins from the 16th-19th centuries. 

Bboth volumes bound together in one volume (12"x8"), the text volume being quite short, about 8" tall. 

This is an "academic" copy, being in Fair condition, at best. Nearly all the plates are detached at the folds, and are in need of repair.  The book is ex-library, with assorted stamps, though it was very nicely preserved in a two-part solander and clamshell case done up in buckram. 

 Here'a the list of folding plates:

 

There seems to be only one other copy online, available at about $700.  This copy is till usable but not I would say to be in collectible condition.  Given its rarity and  usefulness, and then subtracting for condition, I think the price on these volumes should be $275.