Deutschlands Ritter-und Verdienst-Orden (Germany's Knight and Merit Orders), 1900

Edited by Dr. Walther Schultze, Consul General of Ecuador, published in Berlin by J.A. Stargardt, printed by Pass & Garleb of Berlin and bound by Baumbach & Co. of Berlin in 1900, in hardcover, the front cover in brilliant colours, featuring the image of a king holding an award, with a knight kneeling before him, laurel leaves at the left and oak leaves at the right, along with floral designs throughout and artist marked "M.H.", the back cover with an embossed design, containing 208 pages, the text in German, the nineteen chapters documenting the statues for the awards of the various German states (in order of appearance: Prussia, Hohenzollern, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurttemberg, Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin/Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Oldenburg, Brunswick, Saxon Duchies, Anhalt, Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen/Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Waldeck, Reuss (older), Reuss (younger), Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe), the text printed in black ink and framed within red rules, with seventeen colour plates at the back of the book on a thick paper stock, illustrating the various orders and their ribbons, each of the plates with vellum inserts, measuring 36.5 cm (w) x 50.3 cm (h), the exterior with light soiling on the front cover and finger marks present on the back cover, some of the vellum inserts have experienced tearing, the pages and colour plates pristine, near extremely fine condition.

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