Musique militaire. Catalogue-guide Couesnon & Cie 1915

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COUESNON ET Cie. Catalogue‑guide Couesnon & Cie, the “general manufacture of musical instruments the most important in the world”.
Paris, Couesnon, 1915, in 8° petit, cloth binding, 296 pp.
The music of the Garde Républicaine, at the Opéra, the great Parisian concerts, as well as the exhaustive catalogue of all instruments offered by the company, sometimes including historical or explanatory notes, a colour art‑nouveau style frontispiece, black photographic portraits of composers and musicians after Nadar, Manuel, Boyer, Poysel, etc., black photographic views of the workshops and also of the ensembles, a very fine silver‑relief label glued, showing the “monopole” cornet. A final section on “national songs of all countries” followed by the scores of each anthem.