First edition

Jean de JAURGAIN & Raymond RITTER

La maison de Gramont 1040-1967

Les amis du musée pyrénéen, Lourdes 1968, 16,5x25,5cm, 2 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of 95 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print.
Pleasant copy despite boards very slightly and marginally insolated heads.
Book adorned with 3 genealogical charts leaflets inset at the end of the first volume and 20 photographic plates distributed at the end of the [...]

350 €

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First edition

William COXE

Histoire de la maison d'Autriche, depuis Rodolphe de Hapsbourg, jusqu'à la mort de Léopold II ...

H. Nicolle, Paris 1810, 13x22,5cm, 5 volumes reliés.

first edition of the French translation prepared by PF Henry.
Half-calf caramel bindings, smooth backs decorated with friezes and golden florets, some bits slightly split in heads and feet or with tiny holes, marbled paper plates, second board of the first rough volume at the head, bindings of [...]

300 €

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Pierre PALLIOT

La vraye et parfaite science des armoiries ou l'Indice armorial de feu Maistre Louvan Geliot, ...

Edouard Rouveyre, Paris 1895, 25,5x37cm, 2 volumes en feuilles.

Nouvelle édition imprimée sur vergé et s'agissant en la réimpression en fac-similé de l'édition parisienne de 1660.
Ouvrage illustré de très nombreuses planches, tableaux dépliants et figures in-texte. 
Etuis manquants, agréable exemplaire.

200 €

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First edition

Gilles André, seigneur de la Lontière LA ROQUE (de)

Traité de la noblesse, de ses differentes especes.

Chez Estienne Michallet, AParis 1678, In-4 (18x25cm), (24) 490pp. (2), relié.

Edition originale, rare.
Reliure en pleine basane brune mouchetée. Dos à nerfs orné. Titre doré. Un manque au mors supérieur en tête. Frottements aux mors et tête, et coins.
Etude de référence qui se veut exhaustive sur la noblesse, ses origines, ses règles et ses lois, les [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Henri Comte de BOULAINVILLIERS

Essais sur la noblesse de France, contenans une dissertation sur son origine & abaissement

S.n., à Amsterdam 1732, Pet. in-8 (10,5x16,5cm), (2) XVI (8) 340 (4) 120 (2)p., relié.

first edition. Title page in red and black.
Binding full fair calf iced contemporary. Back smooth decorated with foliage, irons and rollers. Part of title in red morocco. BP tail number. A small lack in mind. Mors split tail 1cm. Rubbed corners. Beautiful copy.

500 €

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ANONYME

Dictionnaire des anoblis 1270-1868 suivi du Dictionnaire des familles qui ont fait modifier leurs ...

Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris 1875, 17x27cm, relié.

New edition.
Bound in half morocco cherry corners, back with five nerves, when golden tail, minor light scratches on the back, a few scuffs on the flat marbled paper, and guards contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, binding signed Sofa of Belz.
Few minor foxing.
Rare.
[...]

350 €

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First edition

Abbé DOUAY

Histoire généalogique des branches de la maison de Béthune, existantes en Flandre et en Artois, ...

S.n., à Paris 1783, petit in-folio (23x37,5cm), iv, ix, 162 (2) (2) 269p., relié.

Rare first edition, and only edition of this book. Illustrated with numerous tables, a large folding plate depicting the genealogy emblazoned Desplanques, figures blazon in-text and notable feature of this book, 15 medallion portraits "in physionotrace" (process invented by Louis Christian and [...]

1 500 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

La nouvelle methode raisonnée du blason

Chez Pierre Bruyset Ponthus, à Lyon 1754, in-12 (9x16,5cm), (8) 298pp. (30), relié.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 32 plates (several figures shields) as well as many shields in-text. Full sheepskin speckled blonde then. Back with five nerves ornate coffered and gilded finials, as well as a part of title sheepskin blonde. All marbled. Head cover rubbed, tail [...]

250 €

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