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With frontispiece- portrait. 8 pp., 244 pp. 4to. Orig. cloth (back rep.). Berlin, Carl Heymanns, 1886. First trade edition. A privately printed edition not for sale and only for private circulation was published in 1874 (3 leaves, 187 pp.). Three more editions appeared in 1891, 1896 and 1904. The large portrait photography depicts Albrecht Prince of Prussia (1836-1906), Field Marshal, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, etc. in full size and vestments as Grand Master of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of St. John. Prince Albrecht succeeded his uncle Carl in 1883 as Grand Master until his death. The Order of Saint John of the Hospital at Jerusalem is the oldest chivalric order, which generally is considered to have been founded in Jerusalen in the year 1099. The protestant Bailiwick of Brandenburg was restored by King Frederick William IV of Prussia in 1852.- A good copy. - Hellwald, p. 104. RELIGION / THEOLOGY ; JOHANNITER/MALTESER ; GERMANY ; HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ;