Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Dithmari, Justi Christoph, Commentatio de Honoratissimo Ordine Militari de Balneo, cujus Origo, Progressus, Restauratio, Regularis Forma, Summaque Dignitas exponuntur ut & Honoratissimorum Equitum ....., Johannis Godofredi Conradi, 1729, 1st edition, title page in red and black letters with vignette, frontispiece, 8 & 90pp., French and Latin text, illustrated with fine engravings of the arms and inscriptions of the stall plates of George Prince of Wales and the thirty-six original Knights of the Order; bound (as norml) with Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, viii, 40 & 6pp., English and Latin text, illustrated, buff boards, spine bearing the title, ‘Ordine Militari de Balneo’, ex libris Johannes von Muralt, pages untrimmed, some damage and staining, otherwise very good condition for its age, rare £300-350

An early and interesting work on the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, unrecorded by Risk.