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1994 Reprint of Habich's Deutschen Schaumünzen
Habich, Georg, completed by Max Bernhart and Paul Grotemeyer. DIE DEUTSCHEN SCHAUMÜNZEN DES XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS. ERSTER TEIL: DIE DEUTSCHEN SCHAUMÜNZEN DES XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS, GEORDNET NACH MEISTERN UND SCHULEN. London: Buckland, Dix and Wood, 1994 reprint. Erster Band, Erste Hälfte; Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte; Zweiter Band, Erste Hälfte; Zweiter Band, Zweite Hälfte; Registerband. Folio, modern matching green leatherette, gilt. 557, (1) pages + cxxxii pages of preliminaries + 48 page Registerband; text illustrations; 334 well-executed plates of medals. Near fine. A well-produced reprint of the rare, superbly illustrated, original (1929–1934) edition of Georg Habich's magnum opus on German medals and presentation talers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This absolutely indispensable and superbly illustrated standard reference work defines not only the artistic excellence of German renaissance medals but their historical importance as well. Clain-Stefanelli 14281*. Grierson 263. Modesti 1006.
Habich, Georg, completed by Max Bernhart and Paul Grotemeyer. DIE DEUTSCHEN SCHAUMÜNZEN DES XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS. ERSTER TEIL: DIE DEUTSCHEN SCHAUMÜNZEN DES XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS, GEORDNET NACH MEISTERN UND SCHULEN. London: Buckland, Dix and Wood, 1994 reprint. Erster Band, Erste Hälfte; Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte; Zweiter Band, Erste Hälfte; Zweiter Band, Zweite Hälfte; Registerband. Folio, modern matching green leatherette, gilt. 557, (1) pages + cxxxii pages of preliminaries + 48 page Registerband; text illustrations; 334 well-executed plates of medals. Near fine. A well-produced reprint of the rare, superbly illustrated, original (1929–1934) edition of Georg Habich's magnum opus on German medals and presentation talers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This absolutely indispensable and superbly illustrated standard reference work defines not only the artistic excellence of German renaissance medals but their historical importance as well. Clain-Stefanelli 14281*. Grierson 263. Modesti 1006.