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 normal) with Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, viii, 40 & 6pp., English and Latin text, illustrated, later boards with gilt decoration, some minor tears and stains, otherwise very fine condition for age, very rare £400-£500

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