Die Hervorragendsten Kunstwerke der Schatzkammer des Österreichischen Kaiserhauses mit Bewilligung SR. Majestät des Kaisers unter Leitung des Oberstkämmerers Franz Grafen Folliot de Crenneville
Vienna: H. O. Miethke, 1870–1873. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio (17 1/2 x 12 1/2"). (6)pp. 100 plates with tissue guards (12 6/8 x 9"). Original brown quarter leather over decorative blind-stamped burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, ruling and tooling on spine. Burgundy endpapers. Title pages printed in red and black with red publisher's device. Printed on Arches paper. General edition.
Featuring the most distinguished artworks of the treasury of the Imperial House of Austria, with the approval of his Majesty the Emperor under the supervision of the director of the Treasury Franz Graf Folliot de Crenneville on the occasion of the new arrangement of the treasury. Typography by Ad. Holzhausen, copper-printing by A. Pisani. Title page and table of content in English and German. Illustrated with 100 extraordinary etchings depicting jewels belonging to the Imperial Family, incl. jewels and vases of gold, silver, rock-crystal and various kinds of precious stones, swords and clothing, clocks and watches, and sacred relics of the holy Roman Empire. The plates are numbered but w/o captions. The etchings are by W. Unger, J. G. Fahrnbauer, E. Kozeluch, A. Lang, C. Poschinger, E. Schuhmann, and J. Wopalensky.
Binding with light wear along edges and remnants of small paper sticker at top left corner of front cover. Starting at inside covers. Sporadic light foxing in upper margin and edges, more pronounced at plate 100, though not affecting images. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Item #43939
Price: $750.00