Part VIII – Books, Magazines, etc. (S-V)
Sacconi, Simone F. LOAN EXHIBITION OF STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND BOWS. Commemorating the Seventieth Birthday of Simone Fernando Sacconi. New York, 1966.
70 full
page plates, leather back and cloth. (minor wear and rubbing to covers,
contents near-fine) A copy brought 275, or about $500.00
Saint-George, Henry. THE BOW: IT'S HISTORY, MANUFACTURE AND USE. London: The Strad Library, No. III, 1922.
(xii), 107 pp., portrait, 8 plates, 45 illustrations. (small 8vo, covers a bit worn) $65.00 Sold!
Saint-George, Henry. FIDDLES: THEIR SELECTION, PRESERVATION AND BETTERMENT. London: The Strad Library, No. XVIII, 1921.
83 pp., frontispiece., 16 illustrations by the author. (8vo, 2nd edition, covers a bit worn and discolored) Scarce. $50.00 Sold!
Salabue, Cozio Di. CARTEGGIO. Trascrizione Di Renzo Bacchetta. Autorizzata Dal Museo Civico Di Cremona. Milan, 1950. In Italian.
xxxiv, 515 pp, frontispiece, 9 plates, 28 illustrations. (sl. minor wear) A copy brought $450 at the Sothebys auction of November, 1989. Scarce. $400.00 Sold!
47 pp., frontispiece portrait of Salabue. (front covers a bit marked and stained, a few pages stained, frontispiece page has some foxing, not affecting the portrati) No. 58 of an edition limited to 100 copies. Extremely scarce. $600.00
Salchow, William. HOW TO CHOOSE A BOW. New York, 1980.
14 pp. (3 3/4 x 8 1/2 in., stiff covers, some creasing and spotting to covers, clip crease) An interesting little pamphlet. $20.00 Sold!
Saleski, Gdal. FAMOUS MUSICIANS OF A WANDERING RACE. New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1927.
xiv, 463 pp., numerous illustrations. (spine and covers sl. rubbed) A fascinating look at 100s of musicians from the early 20th century with a Jewish background. $100.00 Sold!
Saleski, Gdal. FAMOUS MUSICIANS OF JEWISH ORIGIN. New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1949.
xvi, 716 pp., numerous illustrations. (several pages stained, d.j. worn, inscribed and signed by the author) A fascinating look at 100s of musicians from the early 20th century with a Jewish background. $100.00 Sold!
Sandys, W. and Forster, S. THE HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN and Other Instruments Played on with the Bow from the Remotest Times to the Present. Also, an Account of the Principal Makers, English and Foreign with Numerous Illustrations. London: John Russell Smith, 1864.
xii, 390 pp., frontispiece, numerous illustrations and musical examples. (ex-Oscar Shapiro, covers and spine worn and frayed, one page has water damage) Heron-Allen called this book the leading English work on the history of the violin. $85.00 Sold!
Sauzay, Eug. LE VIOLON HARMONIQUE. Ses Ressources, son Emploi dans les Ecoles Anciennes et Modernes. Paris: Librairie Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1889.
viii, 261 pp., numerous musical examples. (covers and spine worn, a lot of foxing) Very scarce. $175.00 Sold!
Schneider, Melvin. HOW TO REHAIR A BOW. Cleveland: Scherl & Roth, 1960.
7 pp., 5 diagrams, 7 illustrations. (8 1/2 x 11 inches, paper covers, some sl. wear) $25.00 Sold!
Schwarz, Boris. GREAT MASTERS OF THE VIOLIN. From Corelli and Vivaldi to Stern, Zukerman and Perlman. Forward by Yehudi Menuhin. New York, 1985.
671 pp., numerous ill.. (cloth, d.j. sl. worn) Reviewed by the Washington Post as "The definitive book on this subject...a landmark." $60.00
(Scrollavezza) RENATO SCROLLAVEZZA e la Scuola di Parma (and the School of Parma). Arago, 1999.
112 pp., illustrations. In English and Italian. (9 x 12 ½ inches, stiff paper covers) $65.00 Sold!
Shar Products. RESOURCE GUIDE FOR BOWS. Ann Arbor, n.d.
24 pp., illustrations. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, paper covers) $15.00 Sold!
Sibire, L'Abbé. LA CHELONOMIE OU LE PARFAIT LUTHIER. Burxelles, 1885. In French.
(6) 227 pp., frontispiece. (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, newer cloth) Very scarce. $200.00 Sold!
Sotheby & Co. CATALOGUE OF FINE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, May 28, 1970.
153 items auctioned, 10 instruments illustrated, including violins by Ferdinand Gagliano, Guadagnini and Andrea Guarneri, and a viola by Lorenzo Carcassi. (no prices realized) $35.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, July 17, 1975.
211 items auctioned, about 42 items illustrated, including violins by Rugeri, Goffriller and Gagliano and the ex Maria Milanollo of Antonius and Hieronymus Amati, and a viola by Pressenda. (with prices realized) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, October 23, 1975.
213 items auctioned, about 28 items illustrated,
including violins by Audinot, Melegari, Craske, Bisiach, Pedrazzini, J. B.
Vuillaume, Barak Norman, and Gaetano Guadagnini, and a cello by William
Forster. (with prices realized)
$45.00
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 27, 1975.
164 items auctioned, 39 instruments illustrated (2 in color), including violins by Bisiach, Gaida, Sebastian Klotz, Guillami, George Craske, Joseph Hill and Nicolas Gagliano, a viola by Thomas Smith, and cellos by Antonius and Hieronymus Amati and the Jansen Stradivari. (with prices realized) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF FINE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, February 12, 1976.
228 items auctioned, 33 instruments and bows illustrated, including violins by Tecchler, Testore, Antonio Guadagnini, Scarampella, and one with the table by Stradivari, the back and ribs by Nicholas Lupot and the scroll by Peter Guarneri of Mantua, a viola by Weigert, cellos by Kennedy and Forster, and a violoncello piccolo with a Jacobus Stainer label. (with prices realized) $35.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 25, 1976.
340 items auctioned, 81 instruments illustrated (2 in color), including violins by George Kloz, Antonius and Hieronymus Amati, Gabrielli, Tecchler, Joseph Gagliano, Andrea Guarneri, Jacob Fendt, Guadagnini, Testore, Joseph Rocca, Joseph Guarneri del Gesu and Omobono Stradivari, and cellos by Panormo, Kennedy, a patent cello by Thomas Howell and Vuillaume. (with prices realized) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, February 10, 1977.
264 items auctioned, 16 instruments illustrated, including violins by Paul Bailly, Rinaldi, Aegidius Klotz and Giulio Degani, and a cello by a member of the Testore family. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF FINE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. New York, April 5, 1977.
102 items auctioned, 48 instruments illustrated (3 in color), including a G. B. Guadagnini and the Greffuhle Stradivari. (with prices realized) $25.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 16, 1977.
199 items auctioned, 27 instruments illustrated, including violins by Andrea Guarneri, Degani, Ferdinand Gagliano, Testore, Grancino, Joseph Guadagnini, Goffriller and Stradivari, and cellos by Scolari and Francesco Rugeri. (with prices realized) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 17, 1977.
282 items auctioned, 76 instruments illustrated (several in color), including violins of Landolfi, Joseph Gagliano, Ferdinand Gagliano, Joseph Ceruti, Antonius and Hieronymus Amati, Tecchler, Joannes Gagliano, Gabbrielli, Guarneri del Gèsu, Peter Guarneri of Mantua, Nicholas Amati, and Stradivari, and cellos by Forster, Collin-Mezin, and Testore. (cover creased) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, February 16, 1978.
287 items auctioned, 40 instruments illustrated (1 in color), including violins by Collin-Mezin, Giulio Degani and Goffriller, and a cello by Jacques Bocquay. (with prices realized) $20.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 22, 1978.
305 items auctioned, 28 instruments illustrated (2 in color), including violins by Deconet, Landolfi, Andrea Guarneri, and 2 by Stradivari, including the Ex Graf Von Der Goltz, a viola by Phillip Achner, and a cello by Kennedy. (with prices realized) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, October 19, 1978.
260 items auctioned, 8 instruments illustrated, including violins by Derazey, Joseph Guadagnini, Collin-Mezin and Gragnani. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 8 & 9, 1978.
318 items auctioned, 73 plates, 132 instruments illustrated (18 in color), including violins of Guadagnini, Ruggieri, Antonio and Hieronymus Amati, Cuypers, Cappa, Kloz, Gabrielli, Goffriller, Panormo, Pressenda, Andrea Guarneri, Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri and the Ebersholt of Guarneri del Gesu, and cellos by Forster, Rocca, the ex- Baron Rothschild of Stradivari and the ex-Kummer of Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri. (with prices realized) $55.00
-------- CATALOGUE OF GOOD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, December 12, 1978.
260 items auctioned, 32 instruments illustrated (1 in color), including violins by J. B. Guadagnini, Louis Bernadel, Justin Derazey, Leopold Widhalm, Thomas Kennedy, Dominique Didelot, and Eugenio Degani, and cellos by Peter Walmsley and Joseph Nadotti. (with prices realized) $25.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, January 25, 1979.
243 items auctioned, 25 instruments illustrated, including violins by Morassi, Landolfi, Derazey and George Craske. (with prices realized) (writing) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, March 6, 1979.
213 items auctioned, 43 instruments illustrated (5 in color), including violins by Vuillaume, Gabrielli, J. B. Guadagnini, Camilli, Lorenzo and Tommaso Carcassi, Joseph filius Andreas Guarneri and Nicholas Gagliano. (with prices realized) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF THE VINCENT HOWARD COLLECTION OF VIOLIN AND VIOLA BOWS. London, May 3, 1979.
71 items auctioned, 65 bows illustrated (15 in color), including bows of Alfred Lamy, Francois Nicholas Voirin, Dodd, Paul Simon, Tubbs, Bazin, Pecatte, Vigneron, Sartory, Maire, Pajeot, and Fetique. (with prices realized) $65.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF GOOD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 19, 1979.
268 items auctioned, 37 instruments illustrated (2 in color), including violins by Testore, Vuillaume, William Forster senior, Panormo, Nicholas Amati, Paolo Castello, and Pressenda, a viola by Mathias Albani, and a cello by Forster. (with prices realized) $25.00
-------- CATALOGUE OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 8, 1979.
281 items auctioned, 118 instruments illustrated (14 in color), including violins by Ceruti, Parnormo, Deconet, Pierray, Januarius Gagliano, Joseph Gagliano, Giovanni Grancino, Vuillaume, Degani, Lupot, Nicholas Bergonzi, Maggini, Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri, Testore, and the ex-Kux Baron Rothschild Stradivari, and cellos by Bernadel, Ceruti, Forster, and Grancino. (with prices realized) (writing) $55.00
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, January 10, 1980.
195 items auctioned, 15 instruments illustrated, including violins by Honore Derazey, Aegidius Kloz, Scarampella, Paul Bailly and Alessandro Gagliano. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, February 7, 1980.
191 items auctioned, 13 instruments illustrated, including violins by Collin-Mezin, Craske, Fredi and Sebastian Kloz, a viola by Richard Duke, and a cello by Johann Ulrich Eberle. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 24, 1980.
227 items auctioned, 21 instruments illustrated, including violins by V. Grivel, Derazey, Glenister and Gollin-Mezin, a viola by John Beard, and cellos by Joseph Hill and Landolfi. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, September 18, 1980.
250 items auctioned, 14 instruments illustrated, including violins by Thomas Perry, Sgarbi, Degani, Marengo Romano Rinaldi and Jacob Coz, and a cello by Louis Noebe. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents. London, October 27 & 28, 1980.
897 items auctioned. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, February 20, 1981.
269 items auctioned, 15 instruments illustrated, including violins by Richard Duke, Hesketh, Audinot, Nicholas Gagliano, Matthias Albani and W. E. Hill and Sons, and a cello by Robert Thompson. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, March 27, 1981.
250 items auctioned, 53 instruments illustrated (5 in color), including violins by Camillus Canilli, John Lott, Nicholas Gagliano, Guadagnini, Lockey Hill and Alessandro Gagliano, violas by Joseph Hill and Sons, Smillie and school of Albani, and a cello by Peter Wamsley. (with prices realized) $45.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, May 15, 1981.
521 items auctioned, 116 instruments illustrated (many in color), including violins of Nicolas Amati, Andrea Guarneri, Guadagnini, Vuillaume and Nicolas Gagliano, a viola by Pietro Joannes Mantegazza, and cello by Peter Walmsley, William Forster, Jacopo Filippo Cordano, Johannes Cuypers andFranois Louis Pique. (with prices realized) $45.00
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, September 17, 1981.
205 items auctioned, 22 instruments illustrated, including violins by Collin-Mezin, Ernst Heinrich Roth, Andreas Ferdinand Mayr, Claude Pirot, Lockey Hill and Ettore Soffritti, violas by Hardie and Craske, and cellos by Chevry, Breton and Giovanni Grancino. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. New York, March 18, 1982.
-------- CATALOGUE OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Part II. London, November 4, 1982.
-------- CATALOGUE OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Part I. London, June 23, 1983.
99 items auctioned, all the instruments illustrated (many in color), including violins by Honor Derazey, Claude Pierray, Enrico Ceruti, Giovanni Grancino, Vincenzo Postiglione, Collin-Mezin, Gabrielli, Joannes Gagliano, Lorenzo Ventapane, Joseph Panormo, Vuillaume, Gregorio Antoniazzi, and Stradivari, violin bows by Victor Fetique, Francois Voirin, James Tubbs, Sartory, Bernardel, violas by Pierre Falaise and Giovanni Rota, and cellos by Craske, Nicholas Chappuy, Francesco Ruggieri, Giuseppe Pedrazzini and the Barjansky Stradivari. (with prices realized) $55.00
-------- CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, April 5, 1984.
546 items auctioned, 131 instruments illustrated (many in color), including violins of Jacob Stainer, Nicolo Amati, Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri, Johannes Cuypers, Giofredo Cappa and the Bucher Stradivari, and cellos by Ferdinando Gagliano, William Forster, Maggini, Thomas Dodd and the Bonjour Stradivari. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 14, 1985.
117 items auctioned, all instruments illustrated (many in color), including violins of Nicolo Gagliano, Lupot, Gragnani, Nicolo Amati, Peter Guarneri of Venice, Peter Guarneri of Mantua, Francesco Ruggieri, Guadagnini, and the Wilhelmj, Lady Blunt and Red Diamond Stradivaris, violas by John Lott and Joseph Hill, and cellos by Testore, Gand & Bernadel, Banks, and the Ben Venuto, ex-Pawle Stradivari. (with prices realized, stiff boards) $75.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 14, 1985. Part II.
221 items auctioned, 48 instruments illustrated, including violins of Henry Lockey Hill, Collin-Mezin and Nicholas Vuillaume, and a cello by Thomas Kennedy. (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF EARLY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, December 12, 1985.
125 items auctioned, 20 instruments illustrated, some in color. (with prices realized) $20.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, March 19, 1986.
329 items auctioned, 152 items illustrated (many in color), including violins by Vuillaume, Guadagnini, Ruggieri, Cappa, Anselmo Bellosio, Montagnana, Joseph Gagliano, Giovanni Gagliano, Sanctus Seraphim, the ex-Carrodus del Gesu, and the ex-Piatti Stradivari, violas by Pressenda and Carcassi, and cellos by Banks, Grancino, and Goffriller. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, May 22, 1986.
369 items auctioned, 135 items illustrated (many in color), including violins by Francesco Guadagnini, Testore, Antonius & Hieronymus Amati, Landolfi, Lorenzo Carcassi, Grancino, Sanctus Seraphim, Andrea Guarneri, Pressenda and Guadagnini, violas by Kennedy and Bernardel, and cellos by Grancino and Antonio & Girolamo Amati. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, September 25, 1986.
232 items auctioned, 37 items illustrated, including violins by Guersan, Bernadel, Lockey Hill, Banks and Vuillaume (with prices realized) $15.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 12, 1986.
552 items auctioned, 221 items illustrated (many in color), including violins by Carlo Tononi, Bussetto, Guadagnini, Goffriller, Sanctus Seraphim, and the ex-Cabriac Stradivari, and cellos by Grancino and Cappa, and the ex-Bonnet by Stradivari. (with prices realized) (missing pp. 73-80, which are included in photocopy) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 9, 1987.
318 items auctioned, 122 instruments illustrated (8 in color), including violins by Antonio Gragnani, Emiliani, Alessandro Gagliano, Forster, Zanoli and the Schubert Peter Guarneri of Mantua, violas by Vuillaume, Pierre & Hippolyte Silvestre and Goffriller, and cellos by Forster, Matteo Goffriller and Francesco Goffriller. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 12, 1987.
415 items auctioned, 136 items illustrated (many in color), including violins by Rocca, Gasparo da Salo, Nicolo Gagliano, Guadagnini, Maggini, and the ex-LaFont Stradivari, and cellos by Goffriller, Rocca and Cappa. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. March 31, 1988.
468 items auctioned, 134 instruments illustrated (17 in color), including violins by Lorenzo & Tomasso Carcassi, Vuillaume, Antonio & Girolamo Amati, Castello, Gragnani, Anselmo, Tononi, Joseph & Antonio Gagliano, Ferdinand Gagliano, Nicolas Amati, Testore, Degani, and the Marie Hall and Ludwig of Stradivari, violas by Craske, Thibout, Seizz and Joseph Hill, and cellos by Forster, Panormo and Grancino. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. June 22, 1988.
360 items auctioned, 118 instruments illustrated (29 in color), including
violins by Castello, Carcassi, Landolfi, Guidantus, Nicolo Gagliano, Albani,
Ventapane, Antonio & Girolamo Amati, Vincenzo Rugeri, Nicolo Amati and the Innes, Loder Stradivari, violas by
Forster, Duke and Renaudin, and cellos by Joseph Hill, Lupot, Ruggieri, Zanoli,
Marchi, the ex-Bonjour Girolamo (II)
Amati and the Cholmondeley
Stradivari. (with prices realized) $50.00
-------- THE SAM AND RIE BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION. Collection of Violins and Bows, Including the Associated Library of Books Relating to the Violin Family of Musical Instruments and their Players. London, November 23, 1988.
60 items auctioned, 22 color plates, illustrating 17 instruments and bows, including the "Baron Heath" Guarneri del Gesù. (with prices realized) (hard covers, some wear) $75.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 23, 24 and 25, 1988.
795 items auctioned, 230 instruments illustrated (many in color), including violins by Amati, Pressenda, Testore, Gagliano, Guadagnini, Rugeri, Gobetti and Tecchler, a viola by Storioni, and cellos by Deconet and Grancino. (with prices realized) $65.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, March 27, 1990.
394 items auctioned, 209 instruments illustrated (many in color), including violins by Peter Guarneri of Mantua, Pressenda, Rocca, and Joseph Gagliano, violas by Degani and Cuypers, and cellos by Vuillaume, Jorio, Joannes Gagliano and Joseph Hill. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 14, 1990.
412 items auctioned, 116 plates, 25 in color, illustrating 185 instruments, including violins by Amati, Goffriller, Guadagnini, Seraphin, and the ex-Vecsey Stradivari, a cello ascribed to Rogeri, and two Tourte bows. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 7, 1991.
351 items auctioned, 155 items illustrated (many in color), including violins by Grancino, Zanotti, Rocca, John Lott, Testore, Vuillaume, Giovanni Tononi and Pressenda, and cellos by Georges Chanot, Tecchler and Peter Wamsley. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 11, 1992.
305 items auctioned, 134 items illustrated (18 in color), including violins by Tononi, Testore, Ferdinand Gagliano, Ceruti and Nicolo Amati, and cellos by Peter Wamsley and Louis Mangin. (with prices realized) $50.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, November 2, 1993.
276 items auctioned, 103 items illustrated (many in color), including violins by Jacob Stainer, Giuseppe Gaglliano, Bernadel, Vuillaume, Balestrieri, Peter Guarneri of Mantua and G. B. Guadanini, a viola by Storioni, and cellos by Bisiach and Carlo Testore, a bass from the school of Maggini, and bows by François Xavier Tourte, Kittel and Dominique Peccatte. (no prices realized) $35.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 19, 2001.
178 items auctioned, 66 items illustrated (all in color), including violins by Pierre Joseph Hel, Pietro Guarneri of Mantua, one probably by Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, J. B. Vuillaume, Giuseppe Gagliano, Carlo Landolfi, Tomaso Carcassi, Andrea Guarneri, Francesco Ruggieri, and Stradivari, violas by Vincenzo Sannino and Johann Eberle (festoon outline), and cellos by Wilhelm Hammig, Ricardo Genovese, Thomas Kennedy, Emile Mennesson, and one probably by Pasquale Ventapane. (with prices realized, minor wear) $35.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Chicago, October 4, 2001.
91 items auctioned, 54 items illustrated (all in color), including violins by Vaccari, Pedrazzini, Audinot, Giuseppe Gagliano, J. B. Vuillaume, Nicolo Gagliano, Andrea Guarneri and G. B. Guadagnini, and cellos by Tomasowsky, Georg Kloz II, and Vuillaume. (back cover creased, no prices realized) $35.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, June 11, 2002.
151 items auctioned, 59 items illustrated (all in color), including violins by William Forster II, Thomas Urquhart, Pietro Guarneri of Mantua, Leopold Widhalm, Georges Chanot II, Dom Nicolo Amati, Johannes Cuypers, Camillo Camilli, Carlo Testore, and Giovanni Pressenda, violas by Mathias Hornstainer, Riccardo Genovese, Allesandro Gagliano, and Nicolas Darche, and cellos by Collin-Mezin I, Charles Bailly, J. B. Vuillaume, and G. B. Guadagnini. (with prices realized) $25.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. London, March 11, 2003.
205 items auctioned, 82 items illustrated (all in color), including violins by John and Arthur Betts, Franz Geissenhof, Matthijs Hofmans, Giuseppe & Antonio Gagliano, Antonio Pelizon, Paul Bailly, Thomas Kennedy, one ascribed to G. B. Guadagnini, Andrea Guarneri, Carlo Loveri, Tomaso Balestrieri, J. B. Vuillaume, Johannes Cuypers, and Pietro Guarneri of Mntua, violas by George Wulme-Hudson, Joseph Meyer, Gaetano Gadda, and Giovanni Gabrielli, and cellos by Johann Reiter, one probably by Thomas Kennedy, and one attributed to Alessandro DEspine. (with prices realized) $35.00 Sold!
-------- CATALOGUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Including Early Music. London, November 2 & 10, 2004.
283 items auctioned, numerous color illustrations, including violins by Giuseppe Gagliano, Degani, Pressenda, Annibale Fagnola, Giovanni Tononi, Gennaro Gagliano, Nicolo Amati and Lorenzo Storioni, a viola by Nicolo Gagliano, and cellos by Georges Mougenot, Collin-Mezin, one ascribed to Carlo Testore, Derazey, and J. B. Vuillaume, (with prices realized) $35.00 Sold!
(Starker, Janos) Geeting, Joyce. JANOS STARKER. "King of Cellists." The Making of an Artist. California, 2008.
vi, 202 pp., illustrations. (8 1/2 x 11 inches, stiff paper covers) $25.00 Sold!
(Stradivari) Bacchetta, Renzo. STRADIVARI NON NATO NEL 1644. Vita e Opere del Celebre Liutaro. La Sala Stradivariana. Del Museo Civico di Cremona. Cremona, 1937. In Italian.
175 pp., numerous illustrations. (6 x 8 3/4 inches, outer covers missing, spine worn and frayed) $125.00 Sold!
-------- Beare, Charles. ANTONIO STRADIVARI. The Cremona Exhibition of 1987. London, 1993.
328 pp., more than 225 pages of color illustrations of instruments, illustrating 44 instruments and 2 bows, including the Tullaye, Mahler, Hellier, Tuscan, Medici, Baron Knoop, Soil, Batta, Lady Blunt, Sarasate, Habeneck and Muntz. An unbelievable collection of Stradivaris instruments in probably the finest color photos of instruments ever printed. A sensational book, in a slipcase! $475.00
-------- Fetis, F. J. NOTICE OF ANTHONY STRADIVARI. The Celebrated Violin-Maker, Known by the Name of Stradivarius. London: Robert Cocks and Co., 1864. First English edition.
xiv, 132 pp., numerous illustrations. (5 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches, covers sl. worn, spine sl. frayed, some writing) This edition scarce. $150.00 Sold!
-------- Herrmann, Emil. STRADIVARIUS MEMORIAL CONCERT. In Commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Death of Antonius Stradivarius. 1644-1737. Carnegie Hall, Monday Evening, December 20, 1937, at 8:30 p.m. Under the Auspices of the Stradivarius Memorial Association. New York, 1937.
40 pp., stiff illustrated wrappers, 21 plates, 20 Stradivari instruments are illustrated. A copy brought 121, about $225 at the Christie's auction of November, 1988. $85.00
-------- (Mostra) MOSTRA DI ANTONIO STRADIVARI. Settimane Musicali di Stressa. Isola Bella, 1963.
--------
Yokoyama, Shinichi. ANTONIO STRADIVARI IN JAPAN. Tokyo: Gakken Co., 1984.
180 pp., fabulous illustrations of 14 of the greatest instruments ever made. Limited to 1000 copies. In a slipcase. (in near-mint condition, in the original box) Very scarce. $1750.00
Strad Magazine. STRAD MAGAZINE. London, 1897-1898.
A specially bound volume of 20 issues, May, 1897-December, 1898. (covers a bit worn, spine frayed, worn and taped, inside covers taped, all plates present) $225.00 Sold!
Strad Magazine. STRAD MAGAZINE. London, 1907-1908. Volume XVIII, May, 1907-Apriil, 1908.
12 issues complete, with all the supplements. Scarce. $150.00 Sold!
Strad Magazine. STRAD MAGAZINE. London, 1941-1953.
Volumes LII-LXIII. Bound in green cloth. Volume LII begins with the June issue, instead of the May issue, as it should, and three pages from the July, 1941 issue are completely or mostly missing. All of the rest of the issues are complete. The first 10 years have been bound in the typical manner for the period, without the covers or advertising pages. The last 2 years also leave out the title page, which was also an advertising page, and just include all the pages of text. An unfortunate process of binding that went on for many decades. A very good collection that includes the scarce war years. $1000.00 Sold!
Strad Magazine. STRAD MAGAZINE. London. 1948-1978.
150 miscellaneous issues from 1948-1978. $325.00 Sold!
Strad Magazine. STRAD MAGAZINE. London. 1980-2003.
276 issues, missing only 11 issues, including 21 complete years, 1980-1992, and 1994-2001. Nine years are in the red Strad binders, which have some wear and cracking. A very good collection. $1200.00 Sold!
Strad Magazine. STRAD MAGAZINE. London. 1974-1977.
Four complete years from January 1974-December, 1977. $250.00 Sold!
-------- THE STRAD CALENDAR 1997. The
Amati Family. $20.00
--------
THE STRAD CALENDAR 2002. The Golden Age of Brescia. $20.00
Strings Magazine. California, 1989-2001.
85 issues: 1989-9/2001, missing only one issue, July/Aug, 1998, plus the 1994 and 1995 Resource Guide. Back issues now sell directly from the publisher for $7.50 each, so this is a bargain. $250.00 Sold!
Strings Magazine. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AUCTION PRICE GUIDE. 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998.
4 issues. Numerous illlustrations. (paper covers, a bit worn) $65.00 Sold!
Szulc, Zdzislaw. SLOWNIK LUTNIKOW POLSKICH. Poznan, 1953. In Polish.
264 pp., 195 illustrations of instruments and facsimiles of labels. (7 x 10 inches, paper covers a bit worn and chipped) A very interesting and scarce book on Polish makers. $150.00
Thöne, Jost. ITALIAN AND FRENCH VIOLINMAKERS. Volume I. 2004.
132 pp., numerous illustrations. (18 x 12 inches) A new photo documentary book highlighting the great masters of Italian and French violin making. Makers included are Riccardo Antoniazzi, Paul Bailly, Gustave Bernardel, Mateo Gofriller, Antonio Gragnani, Nicolas Lupot, Francesco Rugieri, and J. B. Vuillaume. $475.00
Tolbecque, Auguste. L'ART DU LUTHIER. Nirot: Chez L'auteur, 1903. In French.
x, 314 pp., 99 illustrations, portraits of several French luthiers. (bound in full leather, w/o original covers, some pages frayed at edges) A fascinating book that includes sections on all facets of instrument making, including clamps, planes, many varnish recipes, from Piemontaiss recipe of 1550 to Maugins of 1834, tuning pegs, fingerboards, etc., etc. Extremely scarce! $1000.00
Torri, Luigi. LA COSTRUZIONE ED I COSTRUTTORI degli Istrumenti ad Arco. Padova, n.d. (1920?)
viii, 43 pp. (6 x 8 3/4 inches, paper covers, sl. wear and staining, 2nd edition, in Italian) An interesting book that is considered to be tthe most important bibliography on violin books after Heron-Allen. $75.00 Sold!
(Urso, Camilla) Barnard, Charles. CAMILLA: A Tale of a Violin. Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso. Boston, 1874.
141 pp. (8vo, covers and spine a bit worn and discolored) A scarce and interesting book. $150.00 Sold!
van der Straeten, Edmund. THE HISTORY OF THE VIOLONCELLO, the Viol da Gamba, their Precursors and Collateral Instruments, with Biographies of all the Most Eminent Players of Every Country. London: William Reeves, 1915. Special Two-Volume Edition.
xvii, 700 pp.,
frontispiece, portrait, 44 plates, 63 illustrations in the text, 10 additional
plates of illustrations appearing in the special edition only. (5 1/2 x 8 3/4
inches, bound in vellum and cloth, some minor wear to covers and spine, corners
of volume I dnged, the insert telling which number this is of the special
edition is missing) Only 100 copies of
this special edition were printed. While the insert with the number is the only
way the numbered copies were identified, because this copy includes the 10
additional illustrations that were in the special edition only, I am absolutely
convinced that this is the special edition. Extremely
van der Straeten, Edmund. THE HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. Its Ancestors and Collateral Instruments From Earliest Times to the Present Day. London, 1933.
Vol I: xvii, 416 pp., frontispiece, 43 illustrations, 32 diagrams. Vol II: ix, 473 pp., frontispiece, 47 illustrations, numerous diagrams. (cloth, probably ex-library, with the library card pockets removed, several pages worn or chipped) A vital resource guide to violinists of past times. The scarce first edition! $150.00 Sold!
Vannes, René. 1252 ÉTIQUETTES DE LUTHIERS. Tirage a Part des 87 Planches D'Étiquettes du Dictionnaire Universel des Luthiers. Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1935.
87 plates with 1252 facsimiles of labels. (minor wear) Very scarce! $275.00 Sold!
Vannes, René. DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL DES LUTHIERS. Bruxelles, 1951 and 1959. Second ediiton.
Part I: xxi, 408 pp., (162 pp.), 2583 facsimiles of labels. Part II: iii, 198 pp., (lviii), 802 facsimiles of labels. In French. (8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches, two volumes bound together in cloth, original covers bound in, minor creasing to tops of pages) $475.00
Vatelot, Etienne. LES ARCHETS FRANCAIS. Paris, 1980. Second edition.
Two volumes. More than 1000 pages, nearly 800 color photographs. In English, French and German. (very good to near-fine condition) The great, indispensible bow book. Sold for $4400 at the Skinner auction of May, 1996. Extremely scarce! $3000.00 Sold!
Vatelot, Etienne. LES ARCHETS FRANCAIS. THE DELUXE EDITION. Paris, 1980. Second edition. In English, French and German.
Two volumes. More than 1000 pages, nearly 800 color photographs. (outside edges of pages a bit dirty, covers sl. worn) The leather-bound edition. No. 203 of only 260 copies. $5000.00 Sold!
(Venetian Instruments) LES VIOLONS. Exhibition Catalogue. Paris, 1995.
295 pp., numerous illustrations of instruments. (stiff paper covers) Beautiful color illustrations. $100.00
Vettori, Carlo. I MAESTRI DEL NOVECENTO. Florence, 1992.
167 pp. In English and Italian. (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches) Numerous photographs of modern Italian violin makers and their instruments. Edition limited to 1000 copies. $225.00 Sold!
Vidal, Antoine. LA LUTHERIE ET LES LUTHIERS. Paris, 1889.
(11), 347 pp., frontispiece, 29 plates illustrating instruments and labels. (6 1/2 x 10 inches, 1/4 leather and marbled boards, sl. wear to covers and spine, a few pages a bit worn) Very scarce. $550.00
Voit & Geiger. CATALOG OF RARE VIOLINS. Chicago, 1930.
24 pp., 4 illustrations. (paper covers, lightly creased in midline, minor wear) Scarce. $100.00 Sold!
(Voller Brothers) Dilworth, John, Fairfax, Andrew, and Milnes, John. THE VOLLER BROTHERS. British Violin Making Association, 2006.
112 pp., 22 full color illustrations of instruments. (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.) Includes a guide to indentifying Voller Instruments. $200.00 Sold!
(Vuillaume, J. B.) Greiner, Stefan-Peter and Thöne, Jost. JEAN-BAPTISTE VUILLAUME. 1998. In English, French and German.
19 pp. of text, 90 full-size pages of photos, illustrating 26 instruments. (16 1/2 x 12 inches) A beautiful book, with wonderful pictures. Edition limited to 2000 copies. $325.00
(Vuillaume, J. B.) JEAN-BAPTISTE VUILLAUME. Un Luthier Francais. 1798-1875. Mirecourt, 1998. In French.
79 pp., numerous illustrations, including illustrations of the bows from the Vuillaume shop. (8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches, stiff covers) The catalog from the Vuillaume Exhibition in Mirecourt. $85.00 Sold!
(Vuillaume,
J. B.) Millant, R. J. B. VUILLAUME. His Life and Work. London: Hill and Sons,
1972. In English, French and German.
207 pp., frontis., 80 pages of illustrations. (edges of covers sl. rubbed and frayed) A beautiful book about this great French maker. $150.00
(Vuillaume, J. B.) Millant, R. J. B. VUILLAUME. His Life and Work. London: Hill and Sons, 1972. In English, French and German. THE DELUXE EDITION.
207 pp., frontispiece, 80 pages of illustrations, bound in full morocco leather, with gilt decorations and in a slipcase. This edition limited to 500 copies. A copy brought 231, about $450 at the Christies auction of November, 1990. $500.00
Return to Catalog Page
Return to Home Page