BUCHNER, ALEXANDER; TRANSLATED BY IRIS URWIN — Musical Instruments Through the Ages

London, Spring Books. Tan Cloth, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ill.: 323 Plates. Hardcover, No date of publication; Christmas, 1956 gift inscription on front free endpaper; Textblock very clean and tight; Lightly edge-scuffed and worn, faded cloth binding; Lacks dust jacket; 38 pages of text, 323 plates in both color and duotone black and white, plus index. Features instruments from around the world, exhibited by the National Museum and City Museum in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Plus paintings, engravings, tapestries, etchings and other forms which document the development of musical instruments through recorded history. Good+.