Author: Ascher, Adolph, Franz Marquis de Bayros (llustrations).
Title: Gut und Blut fuer unsern Kayser. Zweiten, vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage.
Description: Wien, Seidel, (1900). Hardcover. Crown quarto. Pp. 512. Attractive Jugendstil illustrated title-page. Second - and third title-pages. Forewords to 1st & 2nd editions. Illustrated throughout with numerous portraits, views, and ornaments in various styles and sizes. Charming head- and tail-pieces. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's cloth-backed boards, spine gilt, large gilt medallion printed in relief on cover, floral endpapers; corner-tips bit rubbed. In about fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ Second, revised and enlarged edition. Published for the Author. First published, also for the Author, 1898. The present fine copy comes 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). Very rare. F-3 .

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