Heraldry Arms Coats Of Arms. Menestrier - The Art Of The Justified Coat Of Arms. 1661. Watercolor Plates.
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Heraldry Arms Coats Of Arms. Menestrier - The Art Of The Justified Coat Of Arms. 1661. Watercolor Plates.

Artist: -

MENESTRIER (Claude-François).

L'Art du blason justifié
or
Les Preuves du véritable art du blason
establies [sic] par diverses authoritez [sic]
et par plusieurs exemples tirés de la pratique universelle des armoiries,
depuis six cents ans dans toutes les nations de l'Europe
A avec
La Méthode des principes héraldiques.

A Lyon, chez Benoist [Benoît] Coral, 1661.


One vol. in-16 format (142 x 88 mm) of 1 engraved title page n.fol., 13 ff. n.fol., 371 pp. and 5 ff. n.fol.

Nineteenth-century full ivory vellum binding, Jansenist boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt filets gras et maigres, old-red morocco title-piece, gilt title, speckled edges.

Rare first edition.

It opens with an engraved architectural title page and additionally contains 8 engraved plates and a large illustration in the text; itself engraved.
Each of these plates has been carefully colored in watercolor (with the exception of the last; only partially colored).

''In the body of the work, the author notes very bitterly the attacks of L'Epistre apologétique de Cl. Le Laboureur, ''écrit, dit-il, plein d'erreurs, d'inexactitudes et d'impertinences mêlées à des ordures''. (in Renard / Sommervogel).

Renard / Sommervogel, Catalogue des oeuvres imprimées de Ménestrier, XV - Brunet III, Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres, 1626 - Saffroy I, Bibliographie généalogique, héraldique et nobiliaire de la France, 2184.

Presence of light freckling in the body of the work. A small tear in the margin of one leaf. Otherwise in good condition.

280 €

Period: 17th century

Style: Renaissance, Louis 13th

Condition: Good condition

Material: Paper

Reference (ID): 1757155

Availability: In stock

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