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• Die Italienische Lira da Braccio: Eine Kunst-Historische Studie zur Geschichte der Violine (in German; Mostar: V. Radovic, 1892), by A. Hajdecki
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Violin and Its Music (London: Dulau and Co., Novell and Co., 1881), by George Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (second revised edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1907), by F. A. Steinhausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1920), by F. A. Steinhausen, ed. by Arnold Schering (multiple formats at archive.org)

• La Technique Superieure de l'Archet, Pour Violon (in French; Paris and New York, Salabert, 1916), by Lucien Capet, contrib. by Henry Expert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• How to Tell the Nationality of Old Violins (second and enlarged edition; 1901), by Balfour and Co. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eichberg's Complete Method for the Violin (revised edition; Boston: White, Smith and Company, c1879), by Julius Eichberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Basic Principles of Violin Playing: A Report Prepared for the MENC Committee on String Instruction in the Schools (Washington: Music Educators National Conference, c1959), by Paul Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Studying R. Kreutzer's Etudes: 412 Examples, Compiled According to the Advise of the Author for Violin (in English, German, and French; New York and Boston: C. Fischer, c1898), by L. Massart, ed. by Gustav Saenger, contrib. by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (second revised edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1907), by F. A. Steinhausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1920), by F. A. Steinhausen, ed. by Arnold Schering (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Advanced Exercises for the Violin (New York: G. Schirmer, c1912), by Franz Kneisel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale and Chord Exercises for the Violin (Boston: Boston Music Co., c1917), by Eugene W. Ritter and Albert Stoessel (page images at HathiTrust; pages may be in reverse order)
• La Technique Superieure de l'Archet, Pour Violon (in French; Paris and New York, Salabert, 1916), by Lucien Capet, contrib. by Henry Expert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Art of Studying R. Kreutzer's Etudes: 412 Examples, Compiled According to the Advise of the Author for Violin (in English, German, and French; New York and Boston: C. Fischer, c1898), by L. Massart, ed. by Gustav Saenger, contrib. by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Violins and Violin Makers: Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, Their Followers and Imitators, to the Present Time; With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin (London: Longman and Co.; Sheffield: J. Pearce, Jr., 1866), by Joseph Pearce (Gutenberg text)

• The Lost Stradivarius, by John Meade Falkner (Gutenberg text)
• A Village Stradivarius, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Die Italienische Lira da Braccio: Eine Kunst-Historische Studie zur Geschichte der Violine (in German; Mostar: V. Radovic, 1892), by A. Hajdecki
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Violin and Its Music (London: Dulau and Co., Novell and Co., 1881), by George Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)