Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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Medals of the House of Hohenzollern
Menadier, Julius. SCHAUMÜNZEN DES HAUSES HOHENZOLLERN. Berlin: Königliche Museen zu Berlin, 1901. Folio [41 by 32 cm], original cream cloth, bordered in gilt, front cover lettered in gilt with inset medal facsimile; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt; marbled endpapers. (12), 183, (1) pages; text illustrations; 90 very fine plates of medals, some printed in color. Binding spotted and discolored; first few leaves with discoloration and minor flaws; occasional marginal discoloration. Very good. A superbly illustrated work of the highest importance, tracing the history of the House of Hohenzollern from the tenth century to the turn of the twentieth. Julius Menadier (1854–1939) was, with Heinrich Dressel, the director of the Münzkabinett Berlin at the time of publication. We last offered a copy of this extremely rare volume in our 1988 New York Book Auction. Clain-Stefanelli 14627*. Grierson 263. Modesti 1479 ("magnifica opera, di splendida veste tipografica").
Menadier, Julius. SCHAUMÜNZEN DES HAUSES HOHENZOLLERN. Berlin: Königliche Museen zu Berlin, 1901. Folio [41 by 32 cm], original cream cloth, bordered in gilt, front cover lettered in gilt with inset medal facsimile; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt; marbled endpapers. (12), 183, (1) pages; text illustrations; 90 very fine plates of medals, some printed in color. Binding spotted and discolored; first few leaves with discoloration and minor flaws; occasional marginal discoloration. Very good. A superbly illustrated work of the highest importance, tracing the history of the House of Hohenzollern from the tenth century to the turn of the twentieth. Julius Menadier (1854–1939) was, with Heinrich Dressel, the director of the Münzkabinett Berlin at the time of publication. We last offered a copy of this extremely rare volume in our 1988 New York Book Auction. Clain-Stefanelli 14627*. Grierson 263. Modesti 1479 ("magnifica opera, di splendida veste tipografica").