Author: VAN DER STRAETEN Edmund :
Title: The History of the Violin. Its Ancestors and Collateral Instruments.
Description: .: London, Cassell, 1933, 2 volumes, large 8vo. , blue cloth. Some shelf wear but a fine/good copy. Small ex-library stamp partly erased from title. First Edition. 416 pp ; 473 pp, index, 48 plates and numerous text illustrations. A chronologic history of the violin from the very earliest times to 1933 with explanations of the mechanics of the violin and its predecessors and biographies of the makers and performers on the instrument. .

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