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Author	Details	Price
BATE PH Book #2310	The Flute A Study of its History, Development and Construction 2nd edition, 1979 (Instruments of the Orchestra). 288pp, b/w plates, line drawings in text.	£30.00
Bigio R Book #2179	Rudall, Rose & Carte The Art of the Flute in Britain 2011. 316pp, lavishly illustrated coloured & b/w plates depicting flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes and piccolos each shown in at least two views. This book is a comprehensive history of the firm and contains detailed descriptions of the many innovative instruments they made. The gallery contains hundreds of photographs: Simple-system flutes by G Rudall and J Mitchell Rose before they formed their partnership, by Rudall & Rose; by Rudall Rose & Carte, by Rudall Carte : Advanced simple-system flutes, including Carte's "Old System" and flutes made to Clinton and Siccama systems : Boehm flutes with ring keys, both conical and cylindrical : Modern-style Boehm flutes : Carte's 1851 Patent flutes : Carte's 1867 Patent flutes : Radcliff flutes : Unusual flutes, including those made to special order for the inventors Mathews, Martin and Welch. Appendices include addresses, dates and serial numbers; workshop photographs, design features of Rudall Carte flutes; price lists and fingering charts.	£75.00
Bigio R: Editor Book #1957	Readings in the History of the Flute, monographs, essays, reviews, letters and advertisements from nineteenth-century London. Selected and edited with an introduction by Robert Bigio 2006. 360pp. 33 b&w illustrations. The following are included: Charles Nicholson: "A Word or Two" to Mr. W. N. James (1829). W. N. James: Mr. James's Answer to Mr. Nicholson (1829). Miscellany (1836-1857): Consisting of letters and advertisements from The Times and Musical World. William Annand: A Few Words on the Flute (1843). Cornelius Ward: The Flute Explained (1844). John Clinton: A Treatise Upon the Mechanism and General Principles of the Flute (1851). Richard Carte: Sketch of the Successive Improvements Made in the Flute (1851). John Clinton: A Few Practical Hints to Flute Players (1855). Thomas Clotworthy Skeffington: "The Flute" in its Transition State (1862). Theobald Böhm:An Essay on the Construction of Flutes (1847, published 1882)	£30.00 (Paper)
Blakeman Edward Book #2289	Wibb - A Flute for Life 2016. 205 pp 113 colour and b&w plates A biography of the flute player William Bennett in his own words. CONTENTS Preface Introduction 1-Beginnings 2-Teachers 3-Paris 4-Orchestras 5-Heroes 6-Flutes 7-Music 8-Recordings 9-Teaching 10-Playing Conclusion From the Introduction:- This is not a traditional biography. Rather, it is an invitation to spend time with an extraordinary, mercurial personality. Wibb is larger than life and certainly not to be constrained easily between the covers of a book. But whatever this book is, you will be able for the first time to follow Wibb in detail through his extraordinary life devoted to the flute. Wibb has played the flute, taught it, redesigned it, re-made it, and thought endlessly about it for over sixty years. There was a lot to talk about and I have sought to reproduce the immediacy and informality of our conversations as closely as possible.	£16.00 (Paper) More Pages
BOEHM T Book #1134	Die Flote und das Flotenspiel in Akustischer, Technischer und Artistischer Beziehung, mit 2 Tafeln 1980. Reprint der Ausgabe von 1871. 29pp + 5, German text. paper. Small crease in right hand bottom corner, old price and shop ticket on inside paper cover	£9.00 (Paper)
Fitzgibbon H Macaulay Book #2325	The Story of the Flute being a History of the Flute and everything connected with it The Music Story Series edited by Ferderick J. Crowest. 2nd edition with added material, including the position of the flute to-day (1928), frontispiece of Lulli and his Flautists, also corrections & revisions of the work London William Reeves Bookseller Limited New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. 291 pp, b/w illustrations, line drawings in text plus music examples. 8vo, bumped on corners, sunned on spine, deckled edges, light yellowing with a little foxing throughout. Foyles sticker on inside of front board.	£20.00 (Secondhand)
Gunn John Book #2317	The Art of Playing the German Flute On New Principles 1992 Historical Flute Tutor Series - I Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Janice Dockendorff Boland. 53pp, viii + 31 + 53pp	£35.00 (Paper)
JAMES W N Book #1350	A Word or Two on the Flute 1982. 252pp. Facsimile of 1826 edition with a new introduction by Stephen Preston	£20.00 More Pages
MEYLAN R Book #2321	La Flute 1974, Collection "Instruments de Musique", 112pp, colour & b/w illustration, music examples + 45 vinyl disk encased. Yellowed on spine, lightly bumped bottom right hand corner, seller's label on end sheet, inscription in red pencil (for Steven Preston) on flyleaf.	£10.00 (Secondhand)
ROCKSTRO R S Book #2323	A Treatise on the Construction the History and the Practice of THE FLUTE including a sketch of the elements of acoustics and critical notices. The greater part of the biographical information collected and the whole of the extracts from the German and the Italian translated by Georgina M.Rockstro. Revised edition 1928 664pp, b/w illustrations in text. Good copy. 2 ex libris (Harry H Moskovitz, [1904-1981], a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he was a pupil of Georges Laurent, studied with Georges Barrère at the Juilliard) on title pager and flyleaf, shaken on spine, shelf wear of top and bottom of spine and very lightly bumped on corners, yellowing throughout, contents clean.	£50.00 (Secondhand)
SOLUM J Book #2320	The Early Flute 1995 Early Music Series 15 164pp. b/w illustrations with a chapter on the Renaissance flute by Anne Smith	£40.00 (Paper)
TOFF N Book #1787	The development of the Modern Flute 1979. 268pp, b/w illustrations and lined drawings in text. Although this is a new book, it shows minor traces of shelfwear	£40.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
WASHINGTON USA Book #2319	Musical Instruments in the C Dayton Miller Flute Collection at the Library of Congress 1982 Volume 1 Recorders, Fifes, and Simple Systems Transvese Flutes of One Key Compiled by Michael Seyfrit 347pp, 273 instruments described in detail, b/w illustrations	£35.00
WELCH C Book #1587	History of the Boehm Flute with Dr. von Schafhautl's life of Boehm & and an examination of Mr. Rockstro's version of the Boehm-Gordon controversy 1896, 3rd edition., rearranged, added to, and partly rewritten. 504 + xxiiipp. 8 plates, b/w illustrations & line drawings in text. Condition: cracked on spine, plate 1, title page and following page detached, browning of end papers, fly leaves and half title & yellowing throughout with occassional light foxing. Contents good. Green boards with gilt vignette of flute player, both waters stained? Bumped on corners, some damage to spine and shelf wear. Signature of Joseph Lingard (flute player 1880-1969) on fly-leaf.	£60.00 (Secondhand)
WELCH C Book #2324	History of the Boehm Flute With Illustrations Exemplifying its Origen by Progressive Stages and an Appendix containing the Attack originally made on Boehm, and other papers relating to the Boehm-Gordon controversy. London: Rudall, Carte & Co, 23 Berners Street, 1883 113pp plus 16pp Rudall Carte & Co catalogue, b/w illustations & line drawings, red boards bumped on corners, with gold illustration of flautist, spine sunned with shelf wear top and bottom, light tanning of paper with very minor foxing, cracked on spine	£45.00 (Secondhand)

Author

Details

Price

BATE PH
Book #2310

The Flute A Study of its History, Development and Construction 2nd edition, 1979 (Instruments of the Orchestra). 288pp, b/w plates, line drawings in text.

£30.00

Bigio R
Book #2179

Rudall, Rose & Carte
The Art of the Flute in Britain 2011. 316pp, lavishly illustrated coloured & b/w plates depicting flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes and piccolos each shown in at least two views.
This book is a comprehensive history of the firm and contains detailed descriptions of the many innovative instruments they made. The gallery contains hundreds of photographs: Simple-system flutes by G Rudall and J Mitchell Rose before they formed their partnership, by Rudall & Rose; by Rudall Rose & Carte, by Rudall Carte : Advanced simple-system flutes, including Carte's "Old System" and flutes made to Clinton and Siccama systems : Boehm flutes with ring keys, both conical and cylindrical : Modern-style Boehm flutes : Carte's 1851 Patent flutes : Carte's 1867 Patent flutes : Radcliff flutes : Unusual flutes, including those made to special order for the inventors Mathews, Martin and Welch.
Appendices include addresses, dates and serial numbers; workshop photographs, design features of Rudall Carte flutes; price lists and fingering charts.

£75.00

Bigio R: Editor
Book #1957

Readings in the History of the Flute, monographs, essays, reviews, letters and advertisements from nineteenth-century London. Selected and edited with an introduction by Robert Bigio 2006. 360pp. 33 b&w illustrations. The following are included:
Charles Nicholson: "A Word or Two" to Mr. W. N. James (1829).
W. N. James: Mr. James's Answer to Mr. Nicholson (1829).
Miscellany (1836-1857): Consisting of letters and advertisements from The Times and Musical World.
William Annand: A Few Words on the Flute (1843).
Cornelius Ward: The Flute Explained (1844).
John Clinton: A Treatise Upon the Mechanism and General Principles of the Flute (1851).
Richard Carte: Sketch of the Successive Improvements Made in the Flute (1851).
John Clinton: A Few Practical Hints to Flute Players (1855).
Thomas Clotworthy Skeffington: "The Flute" in its Transition State (1862).
Theobald Böhm:An Essay on the Construction of Flutes (1847, published 1882)

£30.00 (Paper)

Blakeman Edward
Book #2289

Wibb - A Flute for Life 2016. 205 pp 113 colour and b&w plates A biography of the flute player William Bennett in his own words.
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1-Beginnings
2-Teachers
3-Paris
4-Orchestras
5-Heroes
6-Flutes
7-Music
8-Recordings
9-Teaching
10-Playing
Conclusion
From the Introduction:-
This is not a traditional biography. Rather, it is an invitation to spend time with an extraordinary, mercurial personality. Wibb is larger than life and certainly not to be constrained easily between the covers of a book. But whatever this book is, you will be able for the first time to follow Wibb in detail through his extraordinary life devoted to the flute. Wibb has played the flute, taught it, redesigned it, re-made it, and thought endlessly about it for over sixty years. There was a lot to talk about and I have sought to reproduce the immediacy and informality of our conversations as closely as possible.

£16.00 (Paper)

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BOEHM T
Book #1134

Die Flote und das Flotenspiel
in Akustischer, Technischer und Artistischer Beziehung, mit 2 Tafeln 1980. Reprint der Ausgabe von 1871. 29pp + 5, German text. paper.
Small crease in right hand bottom corner, old price and shop ticket on inside paper cover

£9.00 (Paper)

Fitzgibbon H Macaulay
Book #2325

The Story of the Flute
being a History of the Flute and everything connected with it The Music Story Series edited by Ferderick J. Crowest. 2nd edition with added material, including the position of the flute to-day (1928), frontispiece of Lulli and his Flautists, also corrections & revisions of the work
London William Reeves Bookseller Limited New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928.
291 pp, b/w illustrations, line drawings in text plus music examples.
8vo, bumped on corners, sunned on spine, deckled edges, light yellowing with a little foxing throughout. Foyles sticker on inside of front board.

£20.00
(Secondhand)

Gunn John
Book #2317

The Art of Playing the German Flute
On New Principles 1992 Historical Flute Tutor Series - I
Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Janice Dockendorff Boland. 53pp, viii + 31 + 53pp

£35.00 (Paper)

JAMES W N
Book #1350

A Word or Two on the Flute 1982. 252pp. Facsimile of 1826 edition with a new introduction by Stephen Preston

£20.00

More Pages

MEYLAN R
Book #2321

La Flute 1974, Collection "Instruments de Musique", 112pp, colour & b/w illustration, music examples + 45 vinyl disk encased.
Yellowed on spine, lightly bumped bottom right hand corner, seller's label on end sheet, inscription in red pencil (for Steven Preston) on flyleaf.

£10.00
(Secondhand)

ROCKSTRO R S
Book #2323

A Treatise on the Construction the History and the Practice of THE FLUTE including a sketch of the elements of acoustics and critical notices. The greater part of the biographical information collected and the whole of the extracts from the German and the Italian translated by Georgina M.Rockstro.
Revised edition 1928 664pp, b/w illustrations in text.
Good copy. 2 ex libris (Harry H Moskovitz, [1904-1981], a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he was a pupil of Georges Laurent, studied with Georges Barrère at the Juilliard) on title pager and flyleaf, shaken on spine, shelf wear of top and bottom of spine and very lightly bumped on corners, yellowing throughout, contents clean.

£50.00
(Secondhand)

SOLUM J
Book #2320

The Early Flute 1995 Early Music Series 15
164pp. b/w illustrations with a chapter on the Renaissance flute by Anne Smith

£40.00 (Paper)

TOFF N
Book #1787

The development of the Modern Flute 1979. 268pp, b/w illustrations and lined drawings in text. Although this is a new book, it shows minor traces of shelfwear

£40.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

WASHINGTON USA
Book #2319

Musical Instruments in the C Dayton Miller Flute Collection at the Library of Congress
1982 Volume 1 Recorders, Fifes, and Simple Systems Transvese Flutes of One Key Compiled by Michael Seyfrit 347pp, 273 instruments described in detail, b/w illustrations

£35.00

WELCH C
Book #1587

History of the Boehm Flute with Dr. von Schafhautl's life of Boehm & and an examination of Mr. Rockstro's version of the Boehm-Gordon controversy 1896, 3rd edition., rearranged, added to, and partly rewritten. 504 + xxiiipp. 8 plates, b/w illustrations & line drawings in text.
Condition: cracked on spine, plate 1, title page and following page detached, browning of end papers, fly leaves and half title & yellowing throughout with occassional light foxing. Contents good. Green boards with gilt vignette of flute player, both waters stained? Bumped on corners, some damage to spine and shelf wear.
Signature of Joseph Lingard (flute player 1880-1969) on fly-leaf.

£60.00
(Secondhand)

WELCH C
Book #2324

History of the Boehm Flute
With Illustrations Exemplifying its Origen by Progressive Stages and an Appendix containing the Attack originally made on Boehm, and other papers relating to the Boehm-Gordon controversy.
London: Rudall, Carte & Co, 23 Berners Street, 1883
113pp plus 16pp Rudall Carte & Co catalogue, b/w illustations & line drawings, red boards bumped on corners, with gold illustration of flautist, spine sunned with shelf wear top and bottom, light tanning of paper with very minor foxing, cracked on spine

£45.00
(Secondhand)

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