Product Description
Heraldry or Heraldic Art.
Very good complete collection of the heraldry section from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedia.
Contains 29 plates, 26 of which are single, and one triple.
(Encyclopedia or Reasoned Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Trades).
24 pages of explanatory text in French + 27 (one three-part, fold-out) copperplate engravings.
These are Diderot's complete heraldic plates in excellent condition, some page end small tears preserved with small cuts of protective tape.
With over 750 heraldic shields comprising: 650 examples of heraldic motifs (Pl.
I to XII); 21 coats of arms of religious ranks, helms of aristocracy (Pl.
XIII to XIV); 36 coats of arms of kings and rulers of Europe, Russia, Ethiopia, Persia, China, etc.
(Pl.
XV to XVIII); 24 coats of arms of French nobility (Pl.
XIX to XX); 63 coats of arms within a genealogical tree of the kings of France going back five generations from Louis XVI, beheaded in the French Revolution, to Louis XIII (Triple folding plate, Pl.
XXI); 12 coats of arms with supporting mermaids, bears, tigers, hounds, gryphons, eagles, etc.
(Pl.
XXII); 95 coats of arms of military and religious orders (Pl.
XXIII-XXVII).
Original, full leather, spine with eight raised bands, gilt ruling and title on spine.
17" - 10¾".
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