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Excerpt from Guide to the Treasury of the Imperial House of Austria: Issued by the Office of the High Chamberlain of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty With this ultimate end in view, it was primarily resolved to clearly define the purpose which the Trea sury should serve as regarded the independent col lections of objects of historical art; so as to prevent various objects which should be included in a single category from being scattered among two or more independent collections, and thus to avoid a separa tion which would be calculated to detrimentally af feet their value from a scientific standpoint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.