The Royal Bavarian Military Merit Order. Its history, its supports and decorations from 1866 to 1943.

The Royal Bavarian Military Merit Order. Its history, its supports and decorations from 1866 to 1943.

2 volumes in slipcase.

Autor: Sascha Zimmermann

Three volumes, ca. 1250 608 pages, more than 2750 photo- graphs, linen-bound with a book jacket. Format: 29.5 × 26 cm

This more than 1200-page, three-volume work is the first comprehensive, scholarly reference book on Royal Bavarian phaleristics, which has long been awaited by historians. The trilogy is based on more than thirty years of collecting and research by the author and – like no other phaleristic work before it – goes into depth with detail and meticulousness.The richly illustrated monograph on the Bavarian Military Merit Order of 1866 can only be published in this scope on the basis of almost completely preserved archival sources from the Bavarian Main State Archives. The order is probably one of the most beautiful and most popular in Bavaria and was designed under the reign of King Ludwig II and his – as with his palaces – highly demanding artistic supervision. In the main historical section of the work and in the comprehensive two-volume catalogue section, the Bavarian Military Merit Order is illuminated and presented from all sides in all of its 250 manufacturer variants in over 2,750 illustrations. In over 330 portraits and detailed biographies, the holders of the order are presented with around 200 award certificates and about 150 original, historical medal brooch bars, and all the production, award and return figures for the individual degrees of the order are revealed with exhaustive data.