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An excellent flag reference with many good illustrations. It can be hard to find but it is by no means “rare”. (In fact, its one of the most common 19-th century flag books.) However the Quarto edition is rather scarce. This book is most commonly found in a smaller format, about 8 inches tall, and all of the plates are bound together at the end. The Quarto edition has the plates distributed throughout the book.
Nick Artimovich, 23 Jul 1998

25 plates. Covers adequate, not exciting. Text content grubby in places.
Bill Bennett, 23 Jul 1998

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Basically, this book contains flags and arms of 198 nations. There are 191 UN member and Vatican State, but I consider more 6 countries as de-facdto independent countries (Abkhazia, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Somaliland, Taiwan and Western Sahara).

Beside the 198 national flags, there are 32 state flags and ensigns, 88 war flag and ensigns, 43 civil flag and ensigns, flags of  123 heads of state and 17 governor-generals. There are some other flags too, eg. flags of some countries used on Olympic (Korea, Taiwan), or some backside (Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, etc.) There are 61 flags of overseas territories and dependencies.

I also put the flags of subdivisions of some countries into book, so there are 774 subnational flags, including flags and arms of Hungarian counties, of course.

I also publish some other flags like ainus, aboroginals, Barotseland, Germans in Belgium, Bougainville, Cabinda, South Cameroon, South Sudan, Kabilia, separatists in India and Myanmar, Kurdistan, Lappland, Mayas, Maoris, Mustangh, Puntland, and so on (45 flags). There are three quasi-states as interesting entities (Saugeais, Sealand, Seborga). Finally, there are flags of 15 international organizations.

All nations have a text about their history in brief, and some facts about their flags and ensigns. It is also true for subnational flags. I have written about symbolism, there are proportions, and adaption dates, too. Unfortunatelly, it was not possible to use FIAV codes to indicate status of flags and ensigns, because of technical reasons. Local names and some basic geo-political data (area, population, capital, government form, administrative units, and currency) are also appear at all countries.

Summarizing, you can find 1421 flags and 240 arms around the world in this book.

Horváth Zoltán, 19 Nov 2002

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Remarks: A chart on the exhibition about the Freising arms (Moor’s head); contains 43 municipal coats-of-arms with the Moor’s head or associated with Freising; see also http://www.krajnik.si/zamorc/.

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