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Total number of records: 13

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Brotherton Collection10
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection5
Herbert Read Collection2

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musical instruments13
music6
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bowed stringed instruments1
catholicism1
customs policy1
death1
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London, United Kingdom3
Gibraltar2
Genoa, Italy1
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Novello, Vincent2
Smith, Robert (1689-1768)2
Board of Elders, Catholic Church, Gibraltar1
Colomb, L C (1834-1890)1
Dolmetsch, Arnold, 1858-19401
Dolmetsch, Mabel1
Forster, Simon Andrew1
Haweis, H R (1839-1901)1
John Broadwood and Sons1
Kircher, Athanasius (1680)1

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Harmonics, or the philosophy of musical sounds

Smith, Robert (1689-1768)

1749

First edition. Of the 28 plates, all but three are folding, numbered I to XXV. With advertisement of Smith's "Complete system of optics", 1738, Cotes's "Harmonia mensurarum", 1722, and "Hydrostati...

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Musikinstrumente

Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich

c1962

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kunstgewerbemuseum Zurich, May 6-July 1, 1962.

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Personal recollections of Arnold Dolmetsch

Dolmetsch, Mabel

1957

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Harmonics, or the philosophy of musical sounds

Smith, Robert (1689-1768)

1749

First edition. Of the 28 plates, all but three are folding, numbered I to XXV. With advertisement of Smith's "Complete system of optics", 1738, Cotes's "Harmonia mensurarum", 1722, and "Hydrostati...

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La musique

Colomb, L C (1834-1890)

1880

"Illustré de 119 gravures dessinées sur bois par C. Colomb, C. Gilbert et Bonnafoux".

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Music and morals

Haweis, H R (1839-1901)

[1871?]

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The history of the violin and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present

Sandys, William (1792-1874); Forster, Simon Andrew

1864

Includes index.

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Board of Elders, Catholic Church, Gibraltar to Novello, Vincent

12 Jul 1837

Handwritten letter from the Board of Elders of the Catholic Church, Gibralter, to Vincent Novello, thanking Novello for his role in supervising the installation of a new organ.

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Martin, T. to Novello, Vincent

28 Nov 1846

Handwritten letter on behalf of T. Martin to Vincent Novello, requesting his acceptance of a portrait of the late piano and harp maker Johann Andreas Stumpff, with a translation of the lines written u...

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John Broadwood and Sons to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1870

Two handwritten letters from the piano manufacturer John Broadwood and Sons to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred, noting that they were about to send a pianoforte and a parcel of soap from London to Genoa and ...

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Shea, Alexander to Novello, Vincent

17 Dec 1836

Handwritten letter from Alexander Shea to Vincent Novello, acknowledging Novello's letter and expressing thanks from the Elders of the Catholic Church in Gibraltar for his assistance in obtaining an o...

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