Author: Le Comte AD. De Pontecoulant

Introduction:: Dr. W.L. Sumner, Fellow of the Institute of Musical Instrument Technology

Publisher/Date: The Netherlands, Frits Knuf (1972) Issued at $168.00; two volume reprint of the original published in Paris in 1861.

Format/Condition: NOS [new old stock] with musty odor; light soiling of white edgeblock. 320 pages Vol I, 712 pages Vol II, Text in French

Description: Volume IX in the Bibliotheca Organologica series of facsimiles of rare books on organs and organ building.

This 2-Volume set has an introduction by W.L. Sumner and a new index by L.J. Plenckers. “These two volumes discuss the organ before the Revolution of 1789 and the period from 1789-1857. This little known work is an inexhaustible source of information for historians studying the music of the 19th century.”

The books are in French.