the Alfred Slotnick Collection of rare books

JAMES CUMMINS bookseller 699 Madison Ave, New York, 10065 | tel: (212) 688-6441 | fax: (212) 688-6192 | jamescumminsbookseller.com large and useful collection of violin books for the connoisseur of rare and important . A With over 100 titles ranging from the 18th to the 20th century, the collection includes works of reference and scholarship, biographies and memoirs of famous and violinists, catalogues of notable collections of rare violins, rare violin dealer catalogues, violin method books, the ico- nography of the violin, and works on the construction and maintenance of violins. The collection was formed over many years by rare book dealer and collector Alfred Slotnick.

1] Illustrated. 85, [1] pp. 8vo. London: William E. Hill, 1962. First ALTADILL, Julio English edition. Publisher’s green cloth. Near fine. $20 Memorias de Sarasate Frontispiece, musical examples. 8vo. Pamplona: Aramendía y 6] Onsalo, 1909. First edition. Contemporary tree-stained sheep, red BOLANDER, John Alfred morocco spine label. Spine scuffed. $100 Bow Making. 1000 Bows and a Tribute 37 pp. 8vo. San Jose, California: Bow de , n.d., ca. 1950. Copy 2] no. 152 of an unknown limitation. Printed wrappers. APIAN-BENNEWITZ, Paul Otto A privately printed manual and appreciation of bow making, by Die Geige, der Geigenbau und die Bogenverfertigung the John Alfred Bolander. $50 xii, 415, [1] pp., without atlas volume. 8vo. Weimar: Bernhard Frie- drich Voigt, 1892. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped 7] in gilt. Pages toned. Contemporary owner’s name to title-page BOLTSHAUSER, Hans and ffep. $100 Die Geigenbauer der Schweiz Mit 59 Portraits und 38 Kunstdrucktafeln. 4to. Switzerland: 3] Haelg-Verlag Degersheim, (1969). First edition. Publisher’s gray BACHMANN, Alberto cloth. Fine in lightly shelfworn dust-jacket. Les Grands Violonistes du Passé Reference work on Swiss violin makers, with short bios and pho- Fold-out chart, musical examples throughout. vi, 468 [2] pp. 4to. tographs of violins and labels. $150 Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1913. First edition. Publisher’s wrap- pers with printed French-fold jacket. Covers loose from spine, 8] spine ends worn. $100 BOYDEN, David D Catalogue of The Hill Collection of Musical Instruments in the Ash- 4] molean Museum, Oxford BALLARD, Francis Drake Illustrated. 4to. London: , 1969. First The Appreciation of Rare Violins edition. Publisher’s beige cloth. Near fine in edgeworn dust-jacket. xxiv, [ii], 103, [1] pp. 8vo. Troy, Pennsylvania: Francis Drake Ballard, $20 1945. Gift edition, numberd 21 and signed by the author on the ffep. Publisher’s dark red cloth. Very good in chipped dust-jacket. 9] Bookplate. $50 [BUONANNI, Filippo] Traité des Vernis. Où l’on donne la maniere d’en composer un, qui 5] ressemble parfaitement à celui de la Chine, & plusieurs autres qui concer- BARUZZI, Arnaldo nent la peinture, la dorure, la gravure à l’eau forte, &c La Casa Nuziale. The Home of . 1667-1680 Illustrated. [xii], 206, [2] pp. 12mo. Paris: Laurent d’Houry, 1723. 2 | James Cummins bookseller First French edition. Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine 16] label. Covers worn, with boards showing through in spots, light DE WITT, Paul spotting and staining to text. Contemporary manuscript annota- Geigenzettel alter Meister. Vom 16 Bis Zur Mitte des 19 Jahrhunderts tions to ffep. 78 plates showing luthiers labels. 4to. Frankfurt/Main: Verlag das First French edition of this treatise on varnish, published first in Muskinstrument, 1976. Facsimile of the 1910 edition. Publisher’s Italian in 1720. $850 blue cloth. Near fine. Violin makers from the 16th to 19th century, with illustrations of 10] labels. $150 Catalog of Rare Old Violins, and Violoncellos. Also Bows of Rare Makers. Collection of Lyon & Healy, Chicago 17] 9 plates (most in color). 63 pp. 8vo. Chicago: Lyon & Healy, Au- DOLMETSCH, Nathalie gust, 1919. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Near fine. The da Gamba. Its Origin and History, its Technique and Musical Rare violin dealer Lyon & Healy’s catalog no. 31. With a typed list Resources of famous violinists and their violins tipped-in at title-pagei. $35 Illustrated. 4to. New York: Hinrischsen Edition Ltd, (1962). First edition. Green cloth. Very good in printed dust-jacket, toned and 11] edgeworn. $30 Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ancient Musical Instruments, MDCCCLXXII [1872] 18] Illustrated with sixteen 7 x 8 in. albumen print photographs DRÖGEMEYER, Herm[ann] Aug[ust] of musical instruments. xi, [i], 48 pp. 4to. London: Science and Die Geige Art Department, South Kensington Museum. Printed by John Frontispiece. 204 pp. 12mo. Bremen: A. Meinhardt, 1892. Later half Strangeways, 1873. First edition. Original printed wrappers. Re- cloth and paper-covered boards. $75 backed, spine cracked, covers worn and soiled, some foxing and soiling throughout, albumen prints fine. $200 19] EHRLICH, A 12] CHEKHOV, Anton P Berühmte Geiger der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Eine Sammlung von 88 Biographien und Portraits Rothschild’s Fiddle and Other Stories Illustrated. 8vo. Leipzig: A.H. Payne, 1893. First edition. Publish- 12mo. New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc, n.d. Publisher’s brown er’s decorated cloth. Spine darkened, very good. Previous owner’s leather-patterned cloth. Extremities rubbed. $15 stamp on title-page. Biographies of 88 violinists with portraits. $50 13] COUTAGNE, Henry 20] Gaspard Duiffoproucart et les Luthiers Lyonnais de XVIe Siècle FERRIS, George T Frontispiece. 79, [1] pp. 8vo. Paris: Librarie Fischbacher, 1893. Re- Great Violinists and Pianists moved from binding and bound in plain card covers. $30 12mo. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891. Publisher’s half brown cloth and printed paper boardss. Covers worn, very good. 14] $25 DAVIDSON, P[eter] The Violin: Its Construction Theoretically and Practically Treated 21] Frontispiece. viii, 301, [1] pp. 8vo. Loudsville, White Col. Ga., FÉTIS, F.J U.S.A: Peter Davidson. Bernard Goodwin, 24 Crawford Street, Pat- Antoine Stradivari, Célèbre Connu sous le Nom de rick, Glasgow, Scotland, 1895. Fifth edition. Publisher‘s embossed Frontispiece facsimile of Stradivarius letter, illustrations to text. red cloth. Light wear to binding, front hinge cracked. [vi], 128 pp. 8vo. Paris: Vuillaume, Luthier, 1856. First edition. Fifth edition of this violin making manual with a dual Geor- Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards by Pouget. gia-Scotland imprint. $50 Binding rubbed, staining to top margin of text, some foxing. $150

15] 22] DE COGAN, Philip FLEMING, James M The Violin: How to Construct and How to Graduate It, According to the Old Violins and Their Makers: Including Some References to Those of Nature and Growth of the Wood Modern Times Photographic frontispiece, two plates showing patterns for violin Frontispiece. viii, 331, [1] pp., + publisher’s catalogue, ads on front construction. [ii], 19, [1] pp. 8vo. Providence, R.I: Press of Whitte- pastedown. London: I. Upcott GIll, n.d., ca. 1883. Reprint. Publish- more & Colburn, 1893. First edition. Original brown cloth, titled er’s decorated cloth. Near fine. $35 in gilt on front cover. Light wear to covers. A short essay on construction of violins by Providence, Rhode Island, luthier Philip de Cogan. $100 the alfred slotnick violin collection | 3 23] 30] FOUCHER, G. HAMMA, Walter Repairing, Restoring and Adjustment of the Violin Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst. Italian Violin Makers. Maitres Illustrated. 12mo. London: 1896. Publisher’s brown cloth. Very Luthiers Italiens good. $35 Illustrated throughout. 728 pp. Text in German, English and French. 4to. New York: Baerenreiter Music Publishers Inc, (1964). 24] No. 1333 of 2400 copies. Publisher’s quarter black leather and beige FOUCHER, G cloth. Near fine in pictorial dust-jacket, lightly shelfworn. Treatise on the History & Construction of the Violin A much expanded edition of Fridolin Hamma’s Meisterweke London: College of Violinists, 1894. Publisher’s brown cloth. Light italienischer Geigenbaukunst (1931) by his son Walter Hamma, wear to covers, previous owners’ ink stamps to title-page. himself a master violin maker. $400 A textbook on the construction of violins written specifically for students preparing for entrance to the College of Violinists. $75 31] HANKS, F.J A Complete System for the Violin 25] FRY, George Printed musical notation throughout. 101, [3] pp. 4to. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company. Cincinnati: Timothy B. Mason, 1846. The Varnishes of the Italian Violin-Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth Publisher’s quarter green cloth and illustrated paper over boards. and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Influence on Tone Light wear to covers. Contemporary owner’s signature to ti- London: Stevens & Sons, 1904. First edition. Publisher’s green tle-page and a few annotations to text. cloth. Light shelfwear. $50 A violin method aimed specifically at the “American Violinists.” With a page of contemporary manuscript musical notation on the 26] rear free end paper showing the hand positions and names of the GOODKIND, Herbert K. notes on each string for each position. $100 Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari Color frontispiece and 1,500 b/w photographs. 780 pp. Larchmont, 32] New York: Published by the author, 1972. First edition. Publisher’s HART, George brown cloth, spine label, color illustration to front cover, in yellow The Violin and its Music card slipcase. Near fine. Illustrated. xi, [i], 484 pp. Thick 8vo. London: Dulau and Co. No- A comprehensive reference work on the violins of Stradivari, with vello and Co, 1881. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth, stamped a census of 700 known instruments, index of 3,500 past and pres- in gilt. Covers worn and soiled, rear hinge cracked. ent owners, and 1,500 photographs. $400 Inscribed “with the author’s kind regards” on the ffep. $75

27] 33] GOSLING, Henry F. HART, George The Violinist’s Manual The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Illustrated. 12mo. London: William Reeves, n.d. Publisher’s orange Illustrated. xl, 499, [1] pp. Thick 8vo. London: Dulau and Co. cloth. Front cover tender, very good. $25 Schott and Co, 1844. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Publish- er’s brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Covers worn and soiled, hinged 28] repaired, binding shaken, rear hinge cracked. GREILSMAER, Lucien $35 Le Vernis de Crémone. Étude historique et critique 34] viii, 175, [1] pp. 8vo. Paris: Société Française d’Imprimerie et de HAUBENSAK, Otto Librairie, 1908. First edition. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, original wrappers bound-in. Some scuffing to spine, else Ursprung und Geschichte der Geige near fine. $150 275, [1] pp. 8vo. Marburg: Johann Grüneberg Verlag, 1930. Publish- er’s illustrated beige cloth. Covers worn and lightly soiled, ffep removed. $25 29] GRILLET, Laurent Les Ancêtres du Violon et du Violoncelle. Les Luthiers et les Fabricants 35] d’Archets The Henry Hottinger Collection Illustrated. 2 Vols. 4to. Paris: Librairie Générale des Arts Décora- Frontispiece portrait, b/w (and one color) photographs of violins tifs, 1901. First edition. Half blue morocco and patterned paper and bows throughout. 4to. [New York]: Rembert Wurlitzer Incor- boards. $400 porated, 1967. First edition. Publisher’s quarter cloth and paper boards. Near fine, in glassine wrapper. A catalogue of one of the great private violin collections of the

4 | James Cummins bookseller 20th century, assembled by investment banker Henry Hottinger. 42] His collection, some 34 violins, contained examples from the each HIPKINS, A.J of the significant periods of Stradivari and Giuseppe . Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique. The Selection, Introduc- Violin dealers Rembert Wurlitzer Co acquired the collection after tion and Descriptive Notes by … Hottinger’s death and produced this illustrated catalogue. The Illustrated by a Series of 48 Plates in Colours drawn by William collection was subsequently dispersed. $250 Gibb. xxiv, 123 pp. 4to. London: A. and C. Black, Ltd, 1921. Second edition (the first published in 1888). Cream cloth spine and red 36] cloth sides. Light wear and soiling to covers. $150 HEPWORTH, William Information for Players, Owners, Dealers & Makers of Bow Instru- 43] ments, also for String Manufacturers HOWE, Elias Frontispiece. 12mo. London: William Reeves, Publisher’s red print- The Violin: How to Master it ed boards. Near fine. $35 Fold-out frontispiece showing correct posture and hand positions. Boston: Elias Howe, n.d., ca. 1892. Quarter cloth and marbled 37] paper-covered boards. Covers worn. $75 HILL, Alfred, Arthur and the late W. Henry Hill The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family Their Life and Work [pro- 44] spectus] HUGGINS, Margaret L Illus. 50, [2] pp. London: W.E. Hill and Sons 1409 New Bond Street, Gio: Paolo Maggini. His Life and Work nd. Wrappers. Fine. Compiled and Edited from Material Collected and Contributed The prospectus of the Hill’s standard work on the Guarneri fami- by William Ebsworth Hill and His Sons William, Arthur, & Alfred ly. $10 Hill. Color frontispiece and 7 plates. [ii], 90 pp. Tall 8vo. Lon- don: W.E. Hill & Sons, 1892. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth, 38] stamped in gilt. Spine a bit darkened, some light wear to covers. HILL, W. Henry, Arthur F. Hill, and Alfred E. Hill $150 Antonio Stradivari. His Life and Work (1644-1737) Color frontispiece, 11 b/w plates. 8vo. London: MacMillan and Co, 45] 1909. Second edition. Publisher’s green cloth. Near fine. $35 Illustrated Catalogue of Violins, Violas & Violoncellos. Bows, Cases, Straings, Methods, Studies, etc … 39] Illustrated. 93, [1] pp. Utica, NY: Peate’s Music House, Inc, [1924]. HILL, W. Henry, Arthur F. Hill, and Alfred E. Hill Publisher’s printed wrappers. Light wear to covers. $25 Antonio Stradivari. His Life and Work (1644-1737) Color frontispiece, 11 b/w plates. 8vo. London: MacMillan and 46] Co, 1909. Second edition. Publisher’s green cloth. Spine worn and JALOVEC, Karel darkened. $35 Encyclopedia of Violin-Makers 16 color plates, b/w illustrations throughout. 482; 399, [1] pp. 2 40] Vols. Folio. London: Paul Hamlyn, (1968). First English edition. HILL, W.E. & Sons Publisher’s brown cloth. Near fine in near fine dust-jackets with Bows, Cases and Accessories just a touch of shelfwear. $400 Illustrated. 31, [1] pp. 8vo. New York: Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, [1940]. Printed wrappers. $30 47] JALOVEC, Karel 41] The Violin Makers of Bohemia. Including Craftsmen of Moravia and HILL, William Henry, Arthur F. HILL & Alfred Ebsworth Slovakia HILL B/w photographs of 319 violins, 622 labels, 16 outlines, folding The Violin-Makers of the Guarneri Family (1626-1762) map of Czechoslovakia. 128 pp. 4to. Chicago: William Lewis & 17 color plates, 21 photogravures. 181, [1], [4, press notices] pp. 4to. Son, n.d. First American edition. Publisher’s blue cloth. Spine London: William E. HIll & Sons, 1931. Number 175 of 200 deluxe faded, in lightly shelfworn dust-jacket. $225 copies. Full brown morocco, covers stamped in gilt to stapwork design with crest of the Guarneri family in center. Fine. 48] The deluxe edition of the Hill’s study of the Guarneri family of KREISLER, Fritz violin makers. A follow-up to their important work on the violins Four Weeks in the Trenches. The War Story of a Violinist of Stradivarius. $4,000 Frontispiece and 7 b/w plates. 12mo. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth. Near fine, in pictorial dust-jacket, chipped with some closed tears.

the alfred slotnick violin collection | 5 Kreisler’s memoires of his brief time at the Eastern front in the Cancel title-page on cheap paper. Paris: Librairie Scientifique, Austrian reserve. He served as a lieutenant until being wonded in Industrielle et Agricole, 1874. Nouvelle édition. Publisher’s green hand-to-hand combat with a Cossack. He was honorably dis- cloth. Wear to cloth at spine, foxing throughout to text. $35 charged and spent the remainder of the war in America. One of the earliest first-hand accounts of fighting by a soldier in World 56] War I. $200 (MENUHIN, YEHUDI), Vintage photograph of a young , violin in hand, flanked 49] by sisters Hephzibah and Yaltah LA LAURENCIE, Lionel de Captioned in pen on the verso. 5 x 7 in. ca. 1930. Light creasing to L‘École Française de Violon de Lully à Viotti corners. 87 plates, musical examples to text throughout. 8vo. Paris: Librai- An early photograph of the talented Menuhin siblings, all of rie Delagrave, 1922-4. First edition. Contemporary half purple whom went on to distinguished careers in music and the arts. $100 morocco and marbled boards, original printed covers bound in. Light rubbing to spines. $375 57] MILLANT, Roger 50] J.B. Vuillaume. Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre LAURIE, David 80 b/w plates. 207, [1] pp., text in French, English and German. The Reminiscences of a Fiddle Dealer 8vo. London: W.E. Hill & Sons, (1972). First edition. Publisher’s Frontispiece portrait and seven additional plates of instruments. two-toned cloth. Near fine, in glassine. $100 174 pp. 8vo. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First American edition. Publisher’s brown cloth. Fine in very good 58] chipped dust-jacket. $125 MÖCKEL, Otto Die Kunst des Geigenbaues 51] 53 plates. xxxii, 378 pp. 4to. Hamburg: Bernh. Friedr. Voigt. Verlag LOCHNER, Louis P Handwerk Und Technik, (1967). Later edition. Publisher’s gray cloth. Near fine in illustrated dust-jacket with light edgewear. $85 8vo. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth. Near fine in clipped dust-jacket, light 59] edgewear. Bookplate. MÖLLER, Max Inscribed on the ffep by Kreisler. $200 The Violin-Makers of the Low Countries (Belgium and Holland) Photographic frontispiece and plates throughout. 165, [1] pp. 4to. 52] Amsterdam: Max Möller N.V. Violin-Makers and Experts, 1955. No. Lyon & Healy’s Catalogue of Fine Violins: mdcccciii. Including the 57 of 1500 copies. Publisher’s burgundy cloth, titled in gilt. Light very celebrated historic violins which formed the well-known Hawley stains to covers, corners bumped. Collection With an alphabetical list of short bios of the violin-makers of the Illustrated. 12mo. Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1903. Green buckram low countries. $400 cloth. $35 60] 53] Mostra di Cimeli Paganiniani Lyon & Healy’s Catalogue of Their Collection of Rare Old Violins: Tipped-in color frontis and 48 b/w plates. 8vo. Milan: Luigi mdcccxcvi-vii Alfieri, (1940). Gray library buckram binding, with original cover Illustrated. 272 pp. 12mo. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1896. Half affixed to front board. $25 linen and marbled boards. Covers rubbed. $75 61] 54] Mostra di Cimeli Paganiniani The Lyon and Healy Collection. Rare Old Violins. XVI-XVII-XVIII Cen- Tipped-in color frontis and 48 b/w plates. 8vo. Milan: Luigi Alfi- turies. Also Fine Modern Instruments eri, (1940). Publisher’s black decorated cloth. Near fine. Bookplate Illustrated. 74 pp. 4to. Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1909. Printed wrap- of Walter Toscanini. $35 pers. Soiling to covers. Catalogue of rare violins from Chicago dealers Lyon and Healy, 62] includes a 1711 Stradivarius (The Healy Strad), at $12,000. $35 MOYA, Hidalgo Violin Tone and Violin Makers 55] xviii, 277, [3] pp. 8vo. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. First MAILAND, Eugène edition. Publisher’s blue cloth. Covers rubbed, previous owner’s Découverte des Anciens Vernis Italiens Employés Pour les Instruments a inscription on ffep. $15 Cordes et a Archets

6 | James Cummins bookseller 63] 70] MOZART, Leopold PICCOLELLIS, Giovanni de Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule Liutai Antichi e Moderni Illustrated. 8vo. Wein: Carl Stephenson, [1922]. Facsimile edition. xvii, [i], 191, [1]; 31, [1]. Text only, without the 24 photographic Publisher’s decorated paper over boards, paper labels. Joints plates. 8vo. Firenze [Florence]: Coi Tipi dei Successori Le Monni- cracked, paper toned. $35 er, 1885. No. 151 of 200 copies. Rebound in blue buckram. Some wear to covers and staining to a few leaves. 64] A biographical history of luthiers. NIEDERHEITMANN, Fridrich [Bound with:] Liutai Antichi e Moderni. Genealogia degli e . Eine Charakteristik der italienischen Geigenbauer und ihrer dei Guarnieri. Firenze, 1886. $200 Instrumente Leipzig: Carl Merseburger, 1928. Later edition. Publisher’s salmon 71] quarter cloth and printed boards. Very good. $35 PIERRARD, Louis Le Violon 65] 8vo. Gand: 1902. Yellow wrappers. $50 NIEDERHEITMANN, Friedrich & Albert Berr Cremona. Eine Charakteristik der italienischen Geigenbauer und ihrer 72] Instrumente POIDRAS, Henri Illustrated. 152 pp. 8vo. Frankfurt: Verlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Critical & Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern 1956. Later edition. Publisher’s orange cloth. Near fine, in near fine [with:] … Volume II printed dust-jacket. $50 Translated by Arnold Sewell. 127 plates. xiii, [i], 283, [11]; xvi, 296, [6] pp. 8vo. Rouen: Imprimerie de la Vicomte, 1928; 1030. First 66] English language edition. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers, Nouveau Manuel Complet du Luthier, ou Traité Pratique et Raisonné de glassine. $150 la Construction des instruments à Cordes et à Archet Three folding charts at rear. 404 pp. 12mo. Paris: Roret, 1894. Nou- 73] velle édition. Later three-quarter brown morocco and marbled POIDRAS, Henri boards. Some staining and spotting to text. $100 Dictionnaire des Luthiers Anciens et Modernes [with:] … Tome Additif 148 plates. xiv, 271, [5]; xvi, 280, [6] pp. 2 Vols. 8vo. Rouen: Imprim- 67] erie de la Vicomte, 1930; 1929. Second edition. Publisher’s yellow ORCUTT, William Dana printed wrappers, glassine. $150 The Stradivari Memorial at Washington, the National Capital Photographic frontispiece and 16 plates. [ii], 49, [1] pp. [Wash- 74] ington, D.C.]: , Gertrude Clarke Whittall Publications of W.E. Hill and Sons relating to the History of the Violin Foundation, (1938). First edition. Publisher’s half cloth and paper and its Makers boards. Near fine, with remnants of glassine wrapper. $20 Illus. 40 pp. 8vo. London: William E. Hill and Sons 140 New Bond Street, nd. Wrappers. Light wear to covers. $25 68] OTTO, Jacob Augustus 75] Treatise on the Construction, Preservation, Repair, and Improvement, of RACSTER, Olga the Violin, and All Bow Instruments Chats on Big & Little Translated from the German, with notes and additions, by Illustrated. 8vo. London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd, n.d., ca. 1910. Thomas Fardely. 16 (ads), [ii, blank], x, [ii], 66, [2] pp. 8vo. London: Revised one volume edition. Publisher’s red cloth. Near fine, in Longman, rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833. First printed and illustrated dust-jacket. $25 English edition. Original drab and blue paper-covered boards, printed spine label. Spine damaged with loss to label. Contempo- 76] rary annotations to last leaf. Bookplate. $100 RACSTER, Olga Chats on Violins 69] Per l’Inaugurazione del Busto di Nicolò Paganini nella Villeta Di Negro 8 illustrations. 8vo. London: T. Werner Laurie, n.d. Second impression. Publisher’s green cloth. Near fine. Previous owner’s [ii], 89, [3] pp. 8vo. Genoa: Fratelli Pagano, 1835. First edition. Pub- name on title-page. $25 lisher’s printed yellow wrappers. Covers lightly soiled. Poems and speeches delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of a bust of Paganini at the villa of Italian poet Gian Carlo Di Negro. $100

the alfred slotnick violin collection | 7 77] 5th at 9:30 p.m [cover title] RACSTER, Olga Illustrated. Tall 8vo. New York: American Art Association, Ander- Chats on Violoncellos son Galleries, 1932. Printed wrappers. Very good. $35 18 illustrations. 8vo. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.d. [1907]. First American edition. Publisher’s green cloth. Near fine. 85] $25 SKINNER, William The Belle Skinner Collection of Old Musical Instruments 78] Color portrait frontispiece, b/w photographs of instruments RAIKES, A.H throughout. 4to. Holyoke, Massachusetts: [Privately printed], 1933. Violin Chat for Beginners First edition. Original light brown printed wrappers. Near fine. $35 96 pp. 12mo. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. First edition. Publish- er’s vellum. Foxing to covers. $30 86] SOUSA, John Philip 79] The Fifth String Rare Violins, Violas, Violoncellos of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Frontispiece and illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. 8vo. Nineteenth Centuries, of the Wurlitzer Collection. Part I. [With:] Rare Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902. First edition. Bows for Violin, Viola, Violoncello … Publisher’s green decorated cloth. Light wear to spine ends. Color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. 2 Vols. 4to. New One of three novels written by the American composer John York: The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, 1931. Publisher’s blue Philip Sousa. the protagonist of The Fifth String is a young vio- wrappers with printed label. $45 linist who makes a deal with the Devil for a magic violin with five strings. $50 80] RETFORD, William C 87] Bows and Bow Makers SPOHR, Louis 24 plates. 86 pp. 4to. London: , 1964. First edition. Pub- Louis Spohr’s Autobiography lisher’s blue cloth. Near fine, in illustrated dust-jacket (spine faded Translated from the German. vii, [iii], 342 [last page mispaginated and edgeworn). $50 242] pp. 8vo. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. First English edition. Contemporary half blue calf 81] and marbled boards. Light rubbing to covers, title-page foxed. RITTER, Hermann Bookplate. Die Viola alta oder Altgeige First English edition of the autobiography of the noted German Frontispiece. Leipzig: Carl Merseburger, 1885. First edition. Brown violinist and composer Louis Spohr. $125 cloth. Spine worn. A history of the viola. $50 88] STEINERT, Morris 82] The M. Steinert Collection of Keyed and Stringed Instruments RODA, Joseph 8vo. Steinway Hall, New York: Charles F. Tretbar, 1893. Publisher’s Bows for Musical Instruments of the brown decorated cloth. Ffep detached. $50 47 plates illustrating 241 bows. 335 pp. 4to. Chicago: William Lewis & Son, 1959. No. 100 of 200 deluxe copies (of 3,200 total copies). 89] Publisher’s full leather deluxe binding, original patterned glassine (STRADIVARI, ANTONIO), DORING, Ernest N and slipcase. Fine. How Many Strads? Our Heritage From the Master. Being a tabulation With a biographical list of bow makers. $1,000 of works believed to survive produced in Cremona by Antonio Stradivari between 1666 and 1737 83] Illustrated. 379, [1] pp. 4to. Chicago: William Lewis & Son, 1945. SAUZAY, Eug[ene] First edition, No. 1156 of 1400 copies. Original red cloth, stamped Le Violon Harmonique … Étude Complétée par un Cours d’Harmonie in black and gold, t.e.g. Near fine in original card slipcase. $350 Musical examples to text throughout. 8vo. Paris: Librarie Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1889. First edition. Half tan sheep and mar- 90] bled boards. Joints and spine worn, some spotting to text. (STRADIVARI) Music theory for the violinist. $50 The Salabue Stradivari. A History and Critical Description of the Fa- mous Violin Commonly Called “Le Messie.” 84] 3 color plates by Shirley Slocombe. 31 pp. Tall 8vo. London: W.E. Seven Rare and Valuable Stringed Instruments, Including Two Stradi- Hill & Sons, 1891. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth titled in gilt, varius Violins and Two by Guarnerius del Gesu. The Collection of John original ties. Light rubbing to covers. Hudson Bennett, New York City … Unrestricted Public Sale … February Messiah-Salabue Stradivarius of 1716 was bequeathed by the Hills

8 | James Cummins bookseller to the Ashmoleon Museum. It remains the only Stradivarius in “as Knopf, 1947. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth. Near fine in new” condition. $350 chipped and worn dust-jacket. Inscribed by Szigeti on the ffep, and with an ALS and TLS from Szigeti laid-in. $200 91] 98] (STRADIVARI) VANNES, René [“The Tuscan Strad”] A Short Account of a Violin by Stradivari, Dated Dictionnaire Universel des Luthiers [with:] … Tome Second 1690; Now in the Possession of Messrs. W.E. Hill & Sons 3,400 examples of labels. xxi, [iii], 408; [xii], 198, lviii, [ii] pp. 2 Vols. Facsimile letter. 12 pp. Tall 8vo. London: W.E. Hill & Sons, 1889. 4to. Bruxelles: Les Amis de la Musique, 1951; 1959. Second edition Wrappered issue. Original printed wrappers. Vertical crease, foxed of vol. I, first edition of vol. II. Vol. I rebound in half blue calf. throughout. $85 Vol. II in publisher’s printed wrappers. $300

92] 99] (STRADIVARI) VIDAL, Antoine [“The Tuscan Strad”] A Short Account of a Violin by Stradivari, Dated La Chapelle St. Julien des Ménestriers et les Ménestrels à Paris 1690; Now in the Possession of Messrs. W.E. Hill & Sons Frontispiece and 5 engravings by Frédéric Hillemacher. 114 pp. 4to. Color frontispiece and 2 color plates, facsimile letter. 13, [1] pp. Paris: A. Quantin, 1878. No. 266 of 550 copies. Publisher’s printed Tall 8vo. London: W.E. Hill & Sons, 1889. First edition. Publisher’s wrappers, uncut. Some chipping to covers. $75 green cloth, titled in gilt. Covers worn and soiled, first few leaves loose, lacking ties. $125 100] VIDAL, Antoine La Lutherie et les Luthiers 93] Frontispiece, 29 plates. [vi], 347, [1] pp. 8vo. Paris: Maison Quantin, (STRADIVARI) 1889. First edition, one of 500 copies. Later orange cloth. Original [“The Tuscan Strad”] A Short Account of a Violin by Stradivari, Made wrappers bound in. Soiling to covers. Fidiculus Bibliographia 193. for Cosimo de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Dated 1690 A history of the violin condensed from the author’s celebrated Les Color frontispiece and 2 color plates, facsimile letter. 14 pp. Tall Instruments à Archet. “The feature which gives this volume its 8vo. London: W.E. Hill & Sons, 1891. Second edition. Publisher’s pre-eminent value is the quantity of marvellous photogravures of green cloth, titled in gilt. Light soiling and wear to covers, lacking labels …” (Fidiculus Bibliographia). $450 ties. Contemporary gift inscription on ffep. $250 101] 94] VIDAL, Antoine STRAETEN, E. van der Les Instruments à Archet The History of the Violin 118 engraved plates. 3 Vols. 4to. Paris: Imprimerie de J. Claye, 1876- Illustrated. 2 Vols. 8vo. London: Cassell and Company, (1933). First 8. First edition, one of 500 copies. Contemporary half velum and edition. Publisher’s blue cloth. Near fine. $100 decorated paper boards, red morocco spine labels. Light soiling to covers, sporadic foxing, an attractive set. Large etched bookplate 95] of Gustav Frid in each volume. Fidiculus Bibliographia 191. STRAETEN, Edmund S.J. van der A beautiful, uncut set of this landmark work on the history of the History of the Violoncello, the da Gamba, Their Precursors and violin. “This is, beyond the possibility of doubt, the greatest work Collateral Instruments … ever published, or which is ever likely to be published, on the Illustrated. xvii, [iii], 700 pp. Thick 8vo. London: William Reeves, violin” (Fidiculus Bibliographia). $2,000 1915. First edition. Publisher’s maroon cloth. Light shelfwear, front hinge tender. Bookplate. $350 102] The Violinist’s Guide. Written for the Use of the Violin Buying Public … 96] The Blue Book of the Violin Making Profession STRETEN, E. van der Illustrated. 48 pp. 8vo. Chicago: The Violinist Publishing Com- The Romance of the Fiddle pany, (1916). Publisher’s green cloth, titled in gilt. Covers lightly worn and soiled. $35 32 plates. xvi, 315, [1] pp. 8vo. London: Rebman Limited, 1911. First edition. Publisher’s beige cloth, stamped in gilt. Covers lightly soiled. $75 103] The Violinist’s Guide. Written for the Use of the Violin Buying Public … The Blue Book of the Violin Making Profession 97] SZIGETI, Joseph Illustrated. 63, [1] pp. 8vo. Chicago: The Violinist Publishing Com- pany, (1920). Publisher’s green cloth, titled in black. $35 With Strings Attached. Reminiscences and Reflections Frontispiece. xiii, [i], 341, [1], xvii, [iii] pp. 8vo. New York: Alfred A.

the alfred slotnick violin collection | 9 104] Violin, Viola and Violoncello Bows Illus. 8 pp. 8vo. London: W.E. Hill and Sons 1409 New Bond Street, nd. Wrappers. Fine. $35

105] VON LÜTGENDROFF, Willibald Leo Freiherrn Die Geigen-Und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart xx, 812, 18, [2] pp. 8vo. Frankfurt: Verlag Von Heinrich Keller, 1904. Contemporary half black morocco and marbled boards. Light rubbing to covers. A standard reference work on European luthiers, with short bios and reproduction of makers’ labels. $150

106] WHITE, A[sa] W[arre] The Violin. How to construct from beginning to completion Two frontispiece fold-out diagrams. 43, [1] pp. 12mo. Boston: A.W. White, 1892. Printed wrappers. Covers edgeworn. A manual on the construction of violins by one of America’s prominent early luthiers, Asa Warren White. $75

107] Wurlitzer Collection of Rare Violins, Violas, Bows of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries Color plates. 8vo. New York: The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, (1925). Illustrated wrappers. $35

108] YSAYE, A[ntoine] Eugene Ysaye. Sa vie — son oeuvre — son influence Préface de Yehudi Menuhin. 40 pp. b/w illustrations at rear. 512 pp. 12mo. Brussels: Editions l’Ecran du Monde. Paris: Les Deux Sirenes, Number 328 of 315 de luxe copies numbered 51-365, of a total edition of 3,865 copies. Publisher’s ream paper-covered boards. Spine darkened, in original card slipcase. $200

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