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Gros & Delettrez

69 - [L.D.C.] [HERALDRY].
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Estimate €200 - €300
Description
[L.D.C.] [HERALDRY]. The Blazon, or An Explanation of Coats of Arms for Use by the Noblest Houses of France (Paris), 1659. Small quarto. Engraved front title page, 10 pp of engraved text and 13 heraldic plates. Fine, lightly speckled fawn calfskin of the period, decorated ribbed spine (front cover missing, binding scuffed, joints worn, a few foxing spots). Only one copy in the CCFr. Anonymous work. Entirely engraved work. With wide margins, on laid paper. Heraldic plates in black etching. A rare work on heraldry, published anonymously under the initials ‘L. D. C.’ in Paris in 1659. Saffroy, 2150.
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