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[GENEALOGY]. BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL (Jacques).
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57
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[GENEALOGY]. BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL (Jacques).
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[GENEALOGY]. BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL (Jacques). HISTORY OF MILITARY ORDERS OR KNIGHTHOODS, of the Secular and Regular Militias of Both Sexes, which have been established to date. Amsterdam, Brunel, 1721. Four volumes in 12mo, in marbled fawn sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, title and volume number labels in havana sheepskin, edges and caps decorated with gilt scrolls, red edges (contemporary binding). Vol. 1: XXXII pp. (including a frontispiece and 1 plate on the reverse of the half-title page and page XVI respectively), 163 pages, (10) pp. of tables – (8) ff. including the title page, 254 pp., 22 plates - Vol. 2: (2) folios comprising half-title and title page, 441 pp., (1) p. of errata, 25/28 plates - Vol. 3: (2) folios comprising half-title and title page, 471 pp., 57/60 plates - Vol. 4: [MISSING: the (2) folios of half-title and title page], 432/439 pp. [MISSING: 20 pp. of tables], 50/76 plates. Three upper caps restored. FIRST EDITION of this ‘rare book which sets out the history and chronological succession of the Grand Masters of all orders of chivalry’ (Saffroy). One frontispiece, one full-page engraved plate within the text and 154/186 out-of-text plates of figures in costume, crosses, insignia or decorations, drawn by Bernard Picard and Schoonebeek, engraved by W. Jonkman. The work is preceded by ‘L’Histoire des duels’ by Basnage de Beauval. ¶ Saffroy, 3750. COPY AS IS, with missing plates and text leaves, as described.
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