Kolbe & Fanning
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Bolzenthal's History of Medallists
Bolzenthal, Heinrich. SKIZZEN ZUR KUNSTGESCHICHTE DER MODERNEN MEDAILLEN-ARBEIT (1429–1840). Berlin: Verlag von Carl Heymann, 1840. Small 8vo, slightly later brown half morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; all page edges marbled. iv, (4), 328, xi, (1) pages; 30 engraved plates of medals. Ex library, with ink stamps to blank versos of plates and elsewhere, and other signs of former institutional ownership. Very good or so. Scarce and important, cited by Forrer as a major source of biographical data. Clain-Stefanelli 14098*: "A mine of information." Forrer, Volume I (1902), page x: "the last thorough retrospect of the artists' lives, whose names, in connection with medal-engraving, have been handed down to us. Bolzenthal's work is a trustworthy guide to this study, and will always be consulted with advantage."
Bolzenthal, Heinrich. SKIZZEN ZUR KUNSTGESCHICHTE DER MODERNEN MEDAILLEN-ARBEIT (1429–1840). Berlin: Verlag von Carl Heymann, 1840. Small 8vo, slightly later brown half morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; all page edges marbled. iv, (4), 328, xi, (1) pages; 30 engraved plates of medals. Ex library, with ink stamps to blank versos of plates and elsewhere, and other signs of former institutional ownership. Very good or so. Scarce and important, cited by Forrer as a major source of biographical data. Clain-Stefanelli 14098*: "A mine of information." Forrer, Volume I (1902), page x: "the last thorough retrospect of the artists' lives, whose names, in connection with medal-engraving, have been handed down to us. Bolzenthal's work is a trustworthy guide to this study, and will always be consulted with advantage."