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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
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• The Violin and Its Music (London: Dulau and Co., Novell and Co., 1881), by George Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The violin and its music. (Dalau and Co., 1885), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin and its music (Ditson, 1883), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin and its music, With several engraved portraits on steel of eminent violinists. (Dulau and co. [etc.], 1881), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin : its famous makers and their imitators, with numerous engravings from photographs of Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati, and others (Dulau and co. :, 1885), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Violin and its music (Ditson & Co., 1883), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Viole de gambe : méthodes, traités, dictionnaires et encyclopédies, ouvrages généraux (Éditions J.M. Fuzeau, 2004), by Paolo Biordi and Vittorio Ghielmi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Gli strvmenti ad arco e i loro cvltori. Origine degli strvmenti ad arco. Livteria. Didattica. Storia della mvsica e delle scvole strvmentistiche in generale. (Ausonia, 1928), by Isaia Billé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the violoncello, the viol da gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments : with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country (William Reeves, 1914), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lessons for 1.2. and 3. viols. By Alfonso Ferrabosco (London : Printed by Thomas Snodham, for Iohn Brovvne, and are to be sould at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1609), by Alfonso Ferrabosco (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Division-violist. Latin & English (London : Printed by W. Godbid for Henry Brome ..., 1667), by Christopher Simpson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• Viole de gambe : méthodes, traités, dictionnaires et encyclopédies, ouvrages généraux (Éditions J.M. Fuzeau, 2004), by Paolo Biordi and Vittorio Ghielmi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Division-violist (Perfomers' Facsimiles, 1998), by Christopher Simpson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Introduction to the playing upon a ground (Performers' Facsimiles, 1998), by Christopher Simpson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Division-viol (Printed by W. Godbid for H. Brome, 1667), by Christopher Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musick's monument (London : Printed by T. Ratcliffe and N. Thompson for the author, and are to be sold by himself ... and by John Carr ..., 1676), by Thomas Mace (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Studium der Viola d'Amour (Carl Fischer, 1920), by Paul Shirley and Frederick Herman Martens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schule für Viole d'amour : op. 6 (J. Weinberger, 1916), by M. L. Goldis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An introduction to the skill of musick in two books : the first, the grounds and rules of musick, according to the gam-ut, and other principles thereof, the second, instructions & lessons for the bass-viol, and instruments & lessons for the treble-violin / by John Playford ; to which is added, The art of descant, or composing musick in parts, by Dr. Tho. Campion ; with annotations thereon, by Mr. Chr. Simpson. (London : Printed by W. Godbid for J. Playford ..., 1674), by John Playford, Christopher Simpson, Edward Lowe, and Thomas Campion (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Studium der Viola d'Amour (Carl Fischer, 1920), by Paul Shirley and Frederick Herman Martens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Défense de la basse de viole contre les entreprises du violon et les prétentions du violoncel. (K. Lelieveld, 1983), by Hubert Le Blanc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Traité de lutherie ancienne. Les mait̂res luthiers, nouvelle Cote des violons (R. Dupuich, 1899), by Robert Fissore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The M. Steinert collection of keyed and stringed instruments. With various treatises on the history of these instruments, the method of playing them, and their influence on musical art. (C.F. Tretbar, 1893), by Morris Steinert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Violinspiels (M. Hesse, 1923), by Andreas Moser and Hans Joachim Moser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the violoncello, the viol da gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments : with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country (AMS Press, 1976), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the violoncello, the via di gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments, with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country. (W. Reeves, 1915), by Edmund S. J. van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of the musical bow; a chapter in the developmental history of stringed instruments of music. Primitive types. (Clarendon, 1899), by Henry Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the violoncello, the viol da gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments : with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country (W. Reeves, 1915), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Three masters : the stringed instrument collection in the Library of Congress (The Library of Congress, 1983), by Rembert Herbert and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das violoncell und seine geschichte (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1889), by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violoncello and its history (Novello, Ewer and co., 1894), by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski and Isobella S. E. Stigand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Violoncell une seine Geschichte. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911), by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski and Waldemar von Wasielewski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le violoncelle : son histoire, ses virtuoses (Costallat, 1913), by Cornélis Liégeois and Édouard Nogué (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The musical literature for unaccompanied violoncello ([Tallahassee], 1962), by Gordon J Kinney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the violoncello, the viol da gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments : with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country (W. Reeves, 1915), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Violoncello and Its History, by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, trans. by Isobella S. E. Stigand (Gutenberg ebook)

• Die Viola alta oder Altgeige (Verlag von Carl Merseburger, 1885), by Hermann Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present : also an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrations (W. Reeves, 1964), by William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch (W. Reeves, 1906), by Edmund Schebek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les violonistes; compositeurs et virtuoses (H. Laurens, 1922), by Marc Pincherle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The instruments of the modern orchestra & early records of the precursors of the violin family (W. Reeves, 1910), by Kathleen Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La lutherie lorraine et française depuis ses origines jusqu'à nos jours : d'après les archives locales (Fischbacher, 1912), by Albert Jacquot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Feuillets d'histoire du violon (Legouix, 1927), by Marc Pincherle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present. (J. R. Smith [etc.], 1864), by William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the violin (The Walter Scott publishing co., ltd.;, 1904), by Paul Stoeving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (Dulau, 1875), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin and its music. (Dalau and Co., 1885), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin: its famous makers and players (Oliver Ditson company;, 1928), by Paul Stoeving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of the fiddle; the origin of the modern virtuoso and the adventures of his ancestors (Rebman limited, 1911), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le violon, les violonistes et la musique de violon du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. (Fischbacher, 1924), by Arthur Pougin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liutai antichi e moderni. (Tipi dei successori Le Monnier, 1885), by Giovanni de Piccolellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude biographique et organographique sur les Willems, luthiers gantois du XVIIe siècle (Impr. C. Annoot-Braeckman, A. Hoste, suce', 1896), by Edmond vander Straeten and Cesar Charles Snoeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die violine, ihre geschichte und ihr bau. : Nach quellen dargestellt (A. Prechter, 1864), by Hyacinth Abele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers of these instruments. (Haynes, Foucher & Co., 1892), by James M. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Berühmte Geigen und ihre Schicksale : musikalische Plauderei (P. J. Tonger, 1920), by Fritz Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The heart of music; the story of the violin (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1921), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die violine und ihre meister (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1927), by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski and Waldemar von Wasielewski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Von der Violine : [Den Buchschmuck zeichnete Curt Stoeving]. (C. F. Vieweg, 1906), by Paul Stoeving (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of the fiddle : the origin of the modern virtuoso and the adventures of his ancestors. With thirty-two full-page plates. (Rebman, 1911), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The violin and its music (Ditson, 1883), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical notice of Nicolo Paganini (Schott & co.; [etc., etc., 1876), by François-Joseph Fétis and Wellington Guernsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heart of music; the story of the violin (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Violine und ihre Meister (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1920), by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski and Waldemar von Wasielewski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Violine und ihre Meister (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1893), by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski and Waldemar von Wasielewski (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin and its music, With several engraved portraits on steel of eminent violinists. (Dulau and co. [etc.], 1881), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Geigenbau in Italien und sein deutscher Ursprung; eine historische Skizze. (Selbstverlag, 1874), by Edmund Schebek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiddle fancier's guide : a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices ... (Foucher, 1892), by James M. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'école classique du violon. (Fischbacher, 1906), by Maurice Reuchsel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old violins and their makers: including some references to those of modern times. (L.U. Gill, 1890), by James M. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fiddle fancier's guide (Haynes, Foucher & co., 1892), by James M. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pipe and strings. Three historic and descriptive sketches: the origin and development of the organ, the evolution of the pianoforte, the violin and its ancestry (The J. Church co., 1895), by Willey Francis Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin : its famous makers and their imitators, with numerous engravings from photographs of Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati, and others (Dulau and co. :, 1885), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• La lutherie et les luthiers (Quantin, 1889), by Antoine Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Violin and its music (Ditson & Co., 1883), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the violin : and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present. Also, an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrations (William Reeves, 1864), by William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von der Violine (C.F. Vieweg, 1906), by Paul Stoeving (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die violine, ihre geschichte und ihr bau. (A. Prechter, 1874), by Hyacinth Abele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers on these instruments (Haynes, Foucher & co., 1892), by James M. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin, its famous makers and their imitators. (Dulau, 1887), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin, its history & construction : illustrated & described from many sources : together with a list of Italian and Tyrolese violin makers (W. Reeves, 1907), by Hyacinth Abele, Friedrich Niederheitmann, and John Broadhouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le violon; son histoire et son origine, avec un précis d'acoustique et des notions sur sa construction (C. Annoot-Braeckman, 1902), by Louis Pierrard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notice historique sur les instruments à cordes et à archet. (G. Bernardet, 1898), by Auguste Tolbecque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old violins and their makers: including some references to those of modern times. (L.U. Gill, 1897), by James M. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin : its famous makers and their imitators ([publisher not identified], 1989), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Violine und ihre Meister. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski and Waldemar von Wasielewski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The violin : its famous makers and their imitators (s.n., 1880), by George Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Geige in Wahrheit und Fabel (A. H. Payne, 1899), by A Payne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present. (J. R. Smith [etc.], 1864), by William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heart of music : the story of the violin (Methuen, 1922), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le violon à travers le siècles ; et, L'école clsssique du violon (Paris : Fischbacher, 1924., 1924), by Maurice Reuchsel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biographical notice of Nicolo Paganini: With an analysis of his compositions, and a sketch of the history of the violin., by François-Joseph Fétis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Violin and Old Violin Makers: Being a Historical & Biographical Account of the Violin, with Facsimiles of Labels of the Old Makers, by A. Mason Clarke (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators, by George Hart (Gutenberg ebook)

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