[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of a Heraldry Classic. With Manuscript Additions. Brussels: 1597

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Scohier, Jean. L'ESTAT ET COMPORTEMENT DES ARMES.Brussels: J. Mommart. 1597. Folio. (12),107 (misnumbered 88),(1)pp. Woodcutprinter's device on title, with a different one at the end. Illustrated with114 woodcut coats-of-arms, the majority with contemporary hand-coloring,genealogical trees in the text and handsome ornamental woodcut initials &head- and tailpieces. Full modern vellum with overlapping fore-edges. Bound inat end is a 6-leaf manuscript supplement in a contemporary hand, containing 25hand-drawn coats-of-arms and crowns, most hand-colored, with text in French andLatin. $3,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
Firstedition of a classic in the field of heraldry, by Jean Scohier (1530-1609),canon of Berghes and Mons, in the Belgian province of Hainau. This lavishlyillustrated work deals with the construction of crests and the laws governingthe construction and interpretation of coats-of-arms. It also explains themethod to compile genealogies and descendancies. The book is famous for itsmultitude of woodcut coats-of-arms, most here hand-colored by a contemporaryowner who has also added 6 leaves with an additional 25 coats-of-arms andcrowns, including 2 larger drawings of the seal of Rudolph I of Hapsburg.Brunet V, 234; MB STC, Dutch & Flemish, p. 185; Saffroy, BIBLIOGRAPHIEGENEALOGIQUE, HERALDIQUE ET NOBILIAIRE DE LA FRANCE, 2072. Not in Adams.
 
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