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A Complete Original Set of Count Hutten-Czapski's Very Rare and Important Work on Polish Coins & Medals
Hutten-Czapski, Comte Emeric. CATALOGUE DE LA COLLECTION DES MÉDAILLES ET MONNAIES POLONAISES DU COMTE EMERIC HUTTEN-CZAPSKI. VOLUMES I–V. St.-Pétersbourg: Chez Carl Ricker, Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg; Paris: J. Baer; Cracovie: D.E. Friedlein / Wl. L. Anczyc & Comp. / Imprimerie de "Czas," 1871, 1872, 1880, 1891 and 1916. Five volumes, complete. 4to, first four volumes in somewhat later matching paneled green cloth, gilt, with final volume in slightly different green cloth. Printed titles in two colors; fine armorial chromolithographic titles by A. Petersen with conjugate limitation leaves to first two volumes; (4), 406 + xvii, (1), 546, 405–406 [corrected errata to Volume I] + vii, (1), 196, clxviii, (2), clxviii, (2) + (2), iii, (1), 381, (1), (2), lxxi, (1) + (4), 125, (1), (2), clxxii pages; numerous numismatic text illustrations; 4 lithographic plates of design elements included in the pagination; 22 + 1 + 23–27 + 28–40 lithographic or photolithographic plates of coins by various artists; 2 engraved size charts; tinted halftone frontispiece plate depicting portrait medal of Hutten-Czapski in final volume. First volume with one sprung signature with resultant fore-edge chipping not affecting text; a few of the lithographic plates in the second volume were trimmed too closely when the set was bound, affecting some images; third volume includes two copies of the 170-page index, the second with a separate printed title page. A very good set. The original edition, complete, of the classic and still-standard work on Polish medals and coins. While all volumes are very scarce, the final two are much less frequently seen, with the fifth volume-published posthumously a full 45 years after the first-being very rare. Emeryk Hutten-Czapski (1828–1896) was of aristocratic birth and was serving as the Deputy Governor of Saint Petersburg when he began publishing his masterwork. In some respects, he was the Polish equivalent of the Russian Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich (to whom he sold his Russian collection). Hutten-Czapski based his work on his own massive collection, formed partly by acquiring entire collections from other notable numismatists. After his death, his collection was donated to the city of Kraków: the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum only reopened in 2013 after having closed for safekeeping in 1939. Exemplaire 419 (first two volumes). Clain-Stefanelli 10992*. Grierson 197. Gumowski 3640. Herstal: "Das wichtigste Elementarwerk in Originalausgabe." Ryszard 18
Hutten-Czapski, Comte Emeric. CATALOGUE DE LA COLLECTION DES MÉDAILLES ET MONNAIES POLONAISES DU COMTE EMERIC HUTTEN-CZAPSKI. VOLUMES I–V. St.-Pétersbourg: Chez Carl Ricker, Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg; Paris: J. Baer; Cracovie: D.E. Friedlein / Wl. L. Anczyc & Comp. / Imprimerie de "Czas," 1871, 1872, 1880, 1891 and 1916. Five volumes, complete. 4to, first four volumes in somewhat later matching paneled green cloth, gilt, with final volume in slightly different green cloth. Printed titles in two colors; fine armorial chromolithographic titles by A. Petersen with conjugate limitation leaves to first two volumes; (4), 406 + xvii, (1), 546, 405–406 [corrected errata to Volume I] + vii, (1), 196, clxviii, (2), clxviii, (2) + (2), iii, (1), 381, (1), (2), lxxi, (1) + (4), 125, (1), (2), clxxii pages; numerous numismatic text illustrations; 4 lithographic plates of design elements included in the pagination; 22 + 1 + 23–27 + 28–40 lithographic or photolithographic plates of coins by various artists; 2 engraved size charts; tinted halftone frontispiece plate depicting portrait medal of Hutten-Czapski in final volume. First volume with one sprung signature with resultant fore-edge chipping not affecting text; a few of the lithographic plates in the second volume were trimmed too closely when the set was bound, affecting some images; third volume includes two copies of the 170-page index, the second with a separate printed title page. A very good set. The original edition, complete, of the classic and still-standard work on Polish medals and coins. While all volumes are very scarce, the final two are much less frequently seen, with the fifth volume-published posthumously a full 45 years after the first-being very rare. Emeryk Hutten-Czapski (1828–1896) was of aristocratic birth and was serving as the Deputy Governor of Saint Petersburg when he began publishing his masterwork. In some respects, he was the Polish equivalent of the Russian Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich (to whom he sold his Russian collection). Hutten-Czapski based his work on his own massive collection, formed partly by acquiring entire collections from other notable numismatists. After his death, his collection was donated to the city of Kraków: the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum only reopened in 2013 after having closed for safekeeping in 1939. Exemplaire 419 (first two volumes). Clain-Stefanelli 10992*. Grierson 197. Gumowski 3640. Herstal: "Das wichtigste Elementarwerk in Originalausgabe." Ryszard 18