Segoing, Charles. - Mercure armorial, enseignant les princip - Lot 199

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Segoing, Charles. - Mercure armorial, enseignant les princip - Lot 199
Segoing, Charles. - Mercure armorial, enseignant les principes éléments du blazon des armoiries, selon l'ordre les termes qui se pratiquent en cette science. Enrichy d'un bon nombre de figures enluminées de couleurs propres pour l'intelligence du livre. A curious work necessary to introduce the nobility to the knowledge of arms. Paris, Alexandre Lesselin, 1649. In-4, bound in full jansenist brown morocco, spine ribbed, author, title, date and edges gilt, large interior roulette (rel. Lortic) - [6 ff.], 200 pp. (miscalculated from 188 to end), [7 pp. table]. The allegorical frontispiece engraved in 1648 is missing, prompting Saffroy to give this date as the original, but the date of the original is the date of printing (1649). Illustrated with 166 in-t figures depicting coats of arms or elements of coat of arms decoration, 98 of which were colored at the time. Fine condition. "Very rare first edition" (Saffroy 2148). A fundamental treatise that contributed to the standardization of heraldic rules in the 17th century.
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