Author: Schneider, L. (Louis).
Title: Der Königliche Kronen-Orden. (Die Preussischen Orden, Ehrenzeichen u. Auszeichnungen. Geschichtlich, Bildlich, Statistisch).
Description: Berlin, Alexander Duncker, 1871. Hardcover. Three parts in one volume. Royal quarto (33x26 cm). Pp. 20; 6; 90. Plus 2 colour lithograph plates, each with facing tissue-guard. Wood-engraved armorial title-page, foxed. Text within woodcut decorative borders. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's red full cloth, large gilt decoration on cover, sides decorated in blind, cloth inner hinges, white silken endpapers, ribbon cloth marker, later lettering-piece to spine; extremities rubbed, corner-tips chafed, some leaves loosening due to dry gutta-percha in binding. In good condition. ~ First edition. From the library of C. P. Mulder, renowned collector and international heraldry authority, with his charming armorial bookplate,"Nil Desperandum", to first free endpaper. For a complete catalogue of Mulder's library, from which we offer a considerable number of items, see: C. P. Mulder: "Catalogue of Works on Orders, Decorations and Medals in the Library of C. P. Mulder" (Rotterdam, 1988). See also: C. P. Mulder & A. A. Purves: "Bibliography of Orders and Decorations" (Copenhagen, 1999). Y-6 .

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