[Rarebooks] FS: Beautifully-bound 1879 Royal Bavarian Treasury

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Historischer und Beschreibender Catalog der Koniglich Bayerischen
Schatzkammer zu Munchen”

By Dr. Emil von Schauss.
Published in Munich in 1879.

DISCUSSION: An “Historical and descriptive catalog of the Royal Bavarian
Treasury in Munich”, which includes descriptions of objects in
combinations of gold, silver, quartz, diamonds, rubies, onyx, enamels,
rhinoceros horn, lapis lazuli, and other precious and semi-precious
materials.

The Treasury’s website explains- “The display of jewels, goldsmith's work,
enamels, crystal objects and [something made from elephant tusks Ebay
won't let us mention] in the Treasury of the Munich Residenz is the result
of centuries of avid collecting by the rulers of Bavaria. In his will of
1565 Duke Albrecht V stipulated that particularly valuable "hereditary and
dynastic jewels" be united to form an unsaleable treasure. The treasure
was expanded by his son, Duke Wilhelm V, and by his grandson, Elector
Maximilian I, and was maintained by Electors Maximilian Emanuel, Karl
Albrecht und Maximilian Joseph III. Elector Karl Theodor enlarged the
treasure in the late eighteenth century by transferring the treasure of
the Palatine Wittelsbachs to Munich. The treasure reached its full extent
in the early nineteenth century, with the addition of the royal insignia
of the newly created Kingdom of Bavaria and of several outstanding
medieval works of art acquired as a result of the confiscation of church
property in 1803. Alongside this profane treasure the Munich Residenz also
possessed valuable liturgical implements and relics (housed in containers
known as reliquaries). This sacred treasure had been acquired in the early
seventeenth century by Wilhelm V and Maximilian I for the Hofkapelle
(Court Chapel) in the Residenz. Like the profane treasure, it was
maintained by successive Wittelsbach rulers and expanded in the early
nineteenth century by examples of the medieval goldsmith's art confiscated
from the Church.”

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 5.5”x8.5”, 441 pages. No illustrations.
Publisher’s brick-red cloth with elaborate strap- and scoll-work
decorations in black and gold on the front cover and spine.  Decorated
endsheets.

CONDITION NOTES: Minor wear, a little soil on the rear cover, but
otherwise clean and nice, with a tight binding.

PRICE: $125~

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