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388 - A collection of two works on the French nobility.
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A collection of two works on the French nobility. 1/ - La Roque, Louis de – Barthélemy, Édouard de. – Catalogue of Gentlemen in 1789 and of families ennobled or granted titles from the First Empire to the present day, 1806–1866. Facsimile of the 1866 edition published in Mayenne by Joseph Floch in 1981. 2 in-8 volumes, paperback with padded soft covers – [4 ff.], XIV (preface), 48 (Alsace, Corsica, Comtat-Venaissin), 32 (Anjou, Saumur), 21 (Armagnac, Quercy), 52 (Artois, Flanders, Hainaut), 35 (Auvergne, Rouergue), 48 (Béarn, Navarre, Gascony), 35 (Bourbonnais, Nivernais), 48 (Burgundy, Bresse, Bugey, Valromey), 63 (Brittany), 68 (Champagne), 24 (Dauphiné), 38 (Franche-Comté), 56 (Guienne, Agénois, Bazadois), 128 (Île-de-France, Soissonnais, Valois, Vermandois), 56 (Montpellier), 40 pp. (Toulouse), VII pp. (table); [4 ff.], 48, 48 (Lorraine, Duchy of Bar), 31 (Lyonnais, Forez and Beaujolais), 36 (Maine, Perche, Thimerais), 38 (Marche, Limousin), 124 (Normandy), 55 (Orléanais, Blaisois, Beauce, Vendomois), 54 (Périgord, Aunis, Saintonge, Angoumois), 47 (Picardy), 52 (Poitou), 32 (Provence, Orange), 36 (Roussillon, Foix, Comminges, Couseran), 32 (Touraine, Berry), 87 pp. (Colonies), 47 (supplement, table). 2/ – Louis-Charles Waroquier de Méricourt. – State of the Nobility, Year MDCCLXXXII... [followed by] Armorial of the principal houses of France and abroad, and of several towns in the kingdom; with a summary of the various degrees of elevation of most of the ancient houses: enriched with nearly four hundred engravings, to aid in the understanding of the various coats of arms, all intended to serve as a supplement to the collection of ‘Etrennes à la noblesse’, from 1771 to the present day. By a society of men of letters and genealogists. Paris, published by Le Boucher, Onfroy, Lamy, AD 1770. LXXXII. 3 volumes in-16 (out of 5; the volumes containing the plates, T 4 and 5, are missing) – bindings worn, particularly on volumes 2 and 3).
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