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Heraldry
ENGLISH HERALDIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, C.E. Wright, 1973; illus. with 20 plates(4 in multicolour); 32pp; 8vo; pict. card covers. £3.00
ARMORIAL GÉNÉRAL: TABLE DU SUPPLÉMENT A L’OEUVRE DE J.B. RIETSTAP PAR HENRI ROLLAND, ed. Martinus Nijhoff, La Haye, 1951; an index which gives the volume number covering each surname; 8vo; orig. card covers, a good copy, slightly browned. £8.00
THE ELEMENTS OF HERALDRY, M.A. Porny, 5th edn., 1795; with 24 copperplate engravings of arms; xxiv+278pp, followed by A Dictionary of the Technical Terms (pages not numbered); 8vo; rebound in green cloth, with old red leather label remounted on spine, a good, firm copy. £20.00
CIVIC AND CORPORATE HERALDRY, G. Briggs, 1971; “A dictionary of impersonal arms of England, Wales, and N. Ireland”; numerous black and white illus.; 432pp; 4to; orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, a few small marks on boards, otherwise a good, firm copy. £40.00
THE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND, 1588, WITH VIEWS OF SOME OF THE CHIEF TOWNS AND ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF NOBLES AND BISHOPS, BY WILLIAM SMITH, ROUGE DRAGON, ed. B. Wheatley & E.W. Ashbee, 1879; 250 copies printed for subscribers; folding colour frontispiece, illuminated title page, 28 other fine colour plates; xix+72pp, plus the plates; 4to; contemporary roan-backed boards, top edge gilt, binding worn and marked, corners heavily worn, hinges sound. £50.00
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HERALDRY, OR GENERAL ARMORY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, J. & J.B. Burke, 3rd edn., 1847; with supplement; “comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms”; multi-coloured engraved frontispiece; illus.; large 8vo; rebound in blue cloth, unlabelled, a firm, clean volume. £35.00
THE ART OF HERALDRY: AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ARMORY, A.C. Fox-Davies [1904], republished by Bloomsbury Books, 1986; numerous illus. including many in colour; viii+504pp; folio; orig. blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket, a very good copy. £25.00
PAPWORTH’S ORDINARY OF BRITISH ARMORIALS, reprint edn., Baltimore, 1965; originally published 1874; xxii+1125pp; enables coats of arms to be identified from a description or picture; large 8vo; orig. cloth, a good, firm copy. £45.00
THE GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY OF THE NOBLE FAMILIES OF MALTA, Charles A. Gauci, Malta, 1981; 46 genealogical tables; illus. with 36 armorial plates; appendices; bibliography; 2 indexes; xxi+309pp; addenda and corrigenda loosely inserted; 8vo; orig. blue cloth gilt, dust- jacket, lightly used. £20.00
LONDON’S COATS OF ARMS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL, R. Crosley, 1928; 30 illus. of coats of arms; index; 254pp; small 4to; orig. cloth-backed boards gilt, a firm copy. £10.00
BIBLIOTHECA HERALDICA, T. Moule [1822], reprinted, Heraldry Today, 1966; bibliography for works on genealogy, heraldry, nobility, knighthood, ceremonies; with a list of provincial visitations, pedigrees, collections of arms, and other manuscripts; and a supplement enumerating the principal foreign genealogical works; illus.; index; xxvi+668pp; 8vo; orig. cream cloth gilt, a good, firm copy. £28.00
SCOTTISH ARMS, R.R. Stoddart, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1881; a limited edition of 300 copies; “being a collection of armorial bearings, A.D. 1370-1678; reproduced in facsimile from contemporary manuscripts, with heraldic and genealogical notes”; illus. with 123 full-page colour plates; xxv+123, 426pp; folio; contents good, orig. gilt dec. cream cloth, some wear on bindings, spines darkenend, boards marked. £120.00
ROLLS OF ARMS HENRY III, Sir Anthony Wagner, Harleian Society, Vols. CXIII & CXIV, 1967; The Matthew Paris Shields c.1244-59 ed. by T.D. Tremlett; Glover's Roll c.1253-8 & Walford's Roll c.1273 ed. by the late H.S. London; illus. with 3 plates including colour frontispiece; xvi+281pp; large 8vo; a little liquid staining on fore-edge, orig. gilt dec. plum cloth, lightly used. £10.00
THE WREATH OF HERALDRY, J. Thorold, Bath, n.d. [circa 1830]; “Or, a dissertation on symbolical devices; together with the origin of names, Saxon etymologies, &c. &c., shewing, at one view, the import and peculiar design of the armorial system; with many other interesting particulars belonging to the science”; including descriptins of subscribers’ arms; engraved armorial frontispiece; viii+124pp; small 8vo; orig. cloth-backed green boards and paper labels, rubbed, some wear on hinges. £10.00
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