Perlen aus der Instrumenten-Sammlung von Paul de Wit in Leipzig = Perles de la collection d'instruments de M. Paul de Wit à Leipzig (Saxe) = Pearls from the collection of musical instruments of Paul de Wit in Leipzig (Saxony).

Wit, P. de ; [ Marie Guillaume Joseph de ?]

Verlag: Verlag von P. de Wit, Leipzig, first edition, 1892, 1892

Light blue cloth, mounted cover illustration, oblong folio, 23 x 37 cm, 14, [1] pp, 16 chromolithograph plates by Emil Pinkau. A magnificently-illustrated catalogue of nearly 200 antique musical instruments loaned by Paul de Wit to a Viennese exhibition, the text being given in German, French and English. Paul de Wit was founder and editor of the Zeitschrift fur Instrumentenbau, a viola da gamba player and one of the keenest and most successful 19th century collectors of obsolete instruments, who had already sold two previous collections to the Prussian Government to found the Berlin Academy of Music's collection. In the words of a contemporary reviewer this third collection included "many remarkable specimens of the keyboard kind, clavichords, spinets or virginals, and harpsichords, many of these being of great beauty and originality of decoration ; there are also Positive and Portable organs as well as Regals, those scarce instruments of which Herr de Wit has a large and a small specimen. As to lutes and viols and their kin there is all the keenest student may care to see." The illustrations - nearly 200 in all, with between 1 and 50 on each of 16 plates - are superb examples of the accuracy and beauty of representation achievable through chromolithographic reproduction of photographic images. The illustrations comprise: early keyboard instruments (plates 1 - 10), harps (plate 11), plucked instruments (plates 12 - 13), stringed bowed instruments (plate 14), brass, woodwind and percussion instruments (plates 15 - 16). PRESENTATION COPY warmly inscribed by the author to "Mr Henry John Dale" on a blank leaf, and signed and dated by de Wit. covers slightly rubbed with one abrasion mark to front board, a little light agetoning and occasional minor foxing to contents, Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-17301

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Perlen aus der Instrumenten-Sammlung von ...
Verlag: Verlag von P. de Wit, Leipzig, first edition, 1892
Erscheinungsdatum: 1892
Einband: Hardcover
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: 1. Auflage