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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Sp?trenaissance broke ground in several fields when it was published in 1908. It was a landmark in the study of what are often referred to in English as the applied or decorative arts and it was the eleventh monograph in a series devoted to what are known in German as Kunstgewerbe. The series was edited by Jean-Louis Sponsel (1858-1930) a profes- sor at the Technische Hochschule (now the Technische Universit?t) in Dresden. Sponsel later became director and historian of the Gr?nes Gew?lbe (Green Vault). Dresden’s treasury of objects of this kind. Schlosser (1866-1938) dealt with Kun- stgewerbe as part of the princely collections in central Europe that contained such artifacts as goldsmithery ivories clocks and cut-stone vessels along with jewels sculpture paintings and books; animal skins shells and other natural specimens; and scientific instruments items of popular culture objects from places far away from Europe and much more. He situated Kunst- und Wunderkammern within a more general history of collecting. More recently the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century phenomena that Schlosser discussed have had an impact on special exhibitions; the display of objects in American British and continental col lections; and works by contemporary artists. (SP)