Violin Making, Signed (7 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Cover. Second Edition. rebound copy. Signature to plate.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Frontispiece of Violin Construction (illustrator). First Edition. 16 Pp. Fraser's Basic Instructions For Violin-Making. With Fraser's Standard Transmission Letter With His Spiel, With Additional Personalized Typewritten Text Addressed To This Particular Buyer, And Signed In Ink By Fraser At Bottom. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with b&w Photos & Several Color Drawings (illustrator). First edition / 1st Printing. First edition / First printing. Signed & inscribed by the author: "Presented to / Mrs. Ruie D. Meeke / By the / Author". Good, no dust jacket, Contents in very good condition but binding is moderately soiled with some water spots, owner's address sticker on inside front cover. Despite the soiling to the front cover, the front cover illustration and lettering are still readable. 12 x 20cm. hard cover. 113pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Inscribed & Signed By Author. Book.

Condition: Gut. limited Edition. 110 S. in Original-Box, Dustjacket, lot of pictures, English - Italien - Japanese, limited Edition from 500 numberet authors copies this have the number 249, signed by Leonidas Rafaelian on the last page and with dedication and signature from Leonidas Rafaelian on the first Page, good to very good condition Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

Small folio (305 x 228 mm). Black-and-white portrait of Royal de Forest Hawley, and 36 mounted plates, of which most in color; printed tissue guards preserved. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 1399 of 2000 copies. With a fine provenance: From the collection of David W. Young, who bought the "Goding" Amati that is described herein. Young inscribes the front flyleaf: "This rare book purchased from R. Wurlitzer in year 1961, at time I obtained the 'Goding' Amati violin of 1662 from Lyon & Healy. - signed - David W. Young at 18508 Clyde Ave. Homewood, Ill U.S.A." Another similar inscription appears on another flyleaf. The "Goding" Amati is described in the catalogue on p. 48, within the broader historical context of the famous Cremonese violin makers: "The Goding Amati is covered with a coating of magnificent varnish of a golden brown color, the texture of which is soft; and the evenness of skill of its application invokes the admiration of the connoisseur at a glance. It formed a part of the famous James Goding collection, to which the King Joseph Guarneri also belonged." Hawley's collection was a veritable encyclopedia of classical violin making. Lyon & Healy acquired the collection in total after his death in 1893, and published this catalogue, which established their reputation as America's eminent dealer at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The remainder of the catalogue includes images and texts about instruments by Stradivari (the Healy and the Earl), Guarneri del Gesu (King Joseph and Jarnowick), Maggini, Bergonzi, Rogeri, Guadagnini, Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri, Stainer, and Lupot. A very good, if slightly shaken, copy, spine label worn, and with some wear at corners, a few short marginal tears and occasional light handling creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Floridly INSCRIBED in belletristic script by the author in black ink on first blank page following ffep: "With compliments of the author", with paraph below. RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION, with 1881 to both title page & copyright page & no later printing details. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait with author's facsimile signature below. Contains biography of George Gemunder, appendix to biography, plus preface. Full details of sections as follows: Progress of the Structure of Violins - Their Critics; A Treatise Upon the Manner in Which Master-Violins are Ruined; Of the Causes Why the Judging of Violins and the Repairing of Them is Less Understood Than Other Art Productions; On the Preservation of Violins; To Illustrate How Violins of My Construction May be Compared With the Old Italian Master-Violins; Art Exhibitions - How Violins are Examined and Judged; Note About Dilettanti Violin Makers; Good Luck and Art, and Remarks About Violins; Of the Manner of Playing - Treatment of Bridges etc.; Circular Which Accompanied my "Emperor Violin" in the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 - An Interesting Explanation About Violins and of the Science of Tone; A Reply to Mr. E. Schelle's Critique Concerning the Violins in the Exhibition of Vienna in the Leipsig "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musick, No. 52, 1873". Includes erratum slip tipped in at rear. "George Gemünder (1816-1899) was a German-born violin maker who worked in the United States. Gemünder was born at Ingelfingen, in the kingdom of Wurtemburg. With his brother August & others, he pioneered the construction of quality violins in the United States. He was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in Paris, & moved to the United States in 1847, establishing himself in Boston. In 1851 his violins won a medal at the World's Fair in London. In 1852 he moved to Astoria, now part of New York City. Vuillaume, & other European makers violin makers often applied chemicals to their instruments to produce a pseudo-antique look & some believed a desirable tone quality. However, Gemünder felt that wood so treated would soon lose its resonance & render treated instruments worthless. Gemünder succeeded in making excellent violins without chemical treatments. His violins are highly regarded for their volume, power, balance, & overall tone, & have been favorable compared to the work of the best old masters. He was unusually successful in the model & finish of his instruments, & especially the varnish. He so faithfully reproduced the distinctive characteristics of old Italian violins that those made by him are not infrequently mistaken for genuine Cremonas. One called the 'Kaiser', finished in 1873 & sent to the Vienna exhibition, was pronounced an Italian violin of the classic period by judges who thought it impossible to produce so fine a tone from a new instrument. Gemünder also received medals from exhibitions held in Paris (1867), New York (1870), Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876 'hors concours'), Amsterdam (1883), Nice (1883-1884), London (1884), New Orleans (1884-1885 'hors concours'), & London (1885). He wrote a book called George Gemünder's Progress in Violin Making (Astoria, New York, 1881), to which he prefixed an autobiographical sketch." Bound in publisher's original dark green pebbled cloth with bright gilt lettering to front board & spine, blind-ruled borders & blind-stamped floral design to both boards, pale green endpapers. Boards lightly soiled, faint lower margin staining, two former owners contemporary ink names (one to upper edge of title page & one to outer margin of first text page), bookseller's small ink stamp to front pastedown, mild foxing to endpapers, faint mustiness, small splash stains to top edge of book block, otherwise overall a GOOD to VERY GOOD nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. Collated & complete. 108pp. Scarce signed copy of the first edition. EXTREMELY RARE. Signed by Author(s).

First English Language Edition. First printing. Small octavo (20cm). Inscribed in pencil by Gemünder on front endpaper: "J.J. Gilbert Peterson / from George Gemünder," dated 1884. Original deep green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; blind-stamped ornaments; 108pp; portrait frontispiece; erratum leaf tipped in at end of text. Spine leaning a bit, with mild spotting to cloth; endpapers foxed but text sound and clean; Very Good. Rare signed copy of this self-published treatise by the highly-regarded German-American violin-builder George Gemünder (1816-1899). Gemünder, one of a family of noted instrument-makers, was trained in the Vuillaume workshop in Paris, later establishing himself in New York where he worked into the 1880s. A scarce volume, not widely held institutionally and infrequent in commerce. A German-language edition appeared a year earlier, under the same Astoria imprint. Signed.