Montagnana Books

If you are looking for a special book or autograph, let me help you find it. Montagnana Books has the most extensive collection of violin and string instrument books available.

We have books about Stradivari and Guarneri, violinmaking, violinmakers, violinists, violists, and cellists, and rare and collectible books by Hill, Doring, Roda, and others. We also carry the latest violin books as they are published.

New Items for December, 2007

Additional New Items

FEUERMANN, Emanuel. Signed Program. 1939. Very scarce. $400.00
see illustration

FEUERMANN, Emanuel. Unsigned Photo. $75.00 see illustration

Meisel, K. Lothar, with Betty Vos. THE MEISEL FAMILY. Violinmakers. Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony. Minnesota, 2007.|
xvii, 269 pp., numerous illustrations. (9 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches, cloth over boards) An interesting new book about this interesting family of violin makers. In English, German, French and Italian. $225.00

(ALI) Italian Violin Makers Association. TOKYO MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FAIR. Ikebukuro, 1993. In English.
12 pp., illustrations. (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, paper covers, top corner cut, not affecting) Rare exhibition catalogue including the biographies and illustrations from the work of each of the following makers: Claudio Arezio, Stefano Conia, Fiorenzo Copertini Amati, Michel Eggimann, Alberto Giordano, Roberto Regazzi, Daniele Alessandro Scalfi and Sandro Soldi. $25.00

(Bignami, Otello) Bignami, William. OTELLO BIGNAMI. Liutaio in Bologna. Violin Maker in Bologna. (Bologna), 2005. Second Enlarged Edition. In English and Italian.
160 pp., numerous illustrations. (9 x 12 1/2 inches, stiff paper covers, sl. creasing to edges of pages) Includes a section dedicated to the reconstructed Bignami workshop at the International Music Museum of Bologna. $150.00 Sold!

(Chigiana) Accademia Musicale Chigiana. IL MUSEO DEGLI STRUMENTI MUSICALI. Catalogo. Siena, 1995. In Italian.
35 pp., 21 pp. of illustrations. (6 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches, stiff paper covers) An interesting collection of instruments. $65.00 Sold!

(Emilia Romagna) ARTIGIANATO ARTISTICO TRADIZIONALE. Emilia Romagna. 1982. Two Volumes.
315 pp., numerous illustrations. (7 x 11 3/4 inches, stiff paper covers, top corner edge of 2nd part is partially cut away) A guidebook to artisans and crafts workers in the Emila Romagna region. $75.00 Sold!

(Fiorini, Giuseppe) Fiorini, Roberto and Frignani, Lorenzo. IL LIUTAIO GIUSEPPE FIORINI. La Vita, Le Lettere E La Donazione dei Cimeli Stradivariani. Modena, 2007. In Italian.
111 pp., numerous illustrations. (8 x 11 3/4 inches, stiff paper covers, sl. creasing) A contemporary member of the Fiorini family re-traces the history of his illustrious roots. Including a chapter on Arrigo Tivoli. $65.00

(Fiorini, Giuseppe) Regazzi, Roberto. IN OCCASIONE DEL 250º ANNIVERSARIO della Morte di Antonio Stradivari per onorare la figura di Giuseppe Fiorini. Bazzano, 1987. In English and Italian.
4 pp. A short biography of Fiorini, the maker who donated to the city of Cremona the greatest part of the material which now constitutes the Museo Stradivariano in that town, formerly in the collection of Cozio di Salabue. $25.00 Sold!

(Genova) GENOVA E I SUOI VIOLINI. Genova, 1996.
14 pp., illustrations. (6 x 8 1/4 inches, paper covers) An interesting little pamphlet that has a little story and the measurements of Paganini’s del Gesú, the “Cannon”, and the copy that Vuillaume made of it and that Paganini gave to Sivori. $45.00 Sold!

(Guadagnini) Fonatana; Severina, Fiori, Giorgio; Chiesa, Carlo. GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUADAGNINI. Luitaio. Nato a Bilegno di Borgonovo V.T. 1711. Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Piacenza, 2000. In Italian.
83 pp., numerous illustrations. (8 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches, corners a bit bumped) A very good and rare documentary book about Giovanni Battista Guadagnini and his family. $275.00 Sold!

(Pollastri, Gaetano) Pollastri, Mariarosa. Gaetano Pollastri: A Biography. Bologna, 2002.
71 pp., numerous illustrations. (8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches, stiff paper covers) In English and Italian. The most important biography of the Pollastri family of violin makers currently available. $85.00 Sold!