Jean SCOHIER
L'estat et comportement des armes. Livre autant util, que necessaire à tous gentils-hommes, heraux, & officiers d'armes
de l'imprimerie de Jean Mommart|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1626|15.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
Second edition after the original of 1597, Brussels, in folio. Illustrated with 114 wooden coats of arms, genealogical trees. Title page in red and black. Printer's vignette on the title page. Decorated initials. The National Library of France possesses the edition of 1630 from Paris. No copy in French catalogues. The edition of 1597 and that of 1630 can be found at the British Library. One copy of the 1629 edition at Manchester.
Contemporary rigid full vellum binding. Smooth spine with handwritten title (faded). An old dampstain at the bottom of the upper board.
The work is one of the best heraldry books, and deals with the constitution of coats of arms and the significance of armorial bearings; it contains a method for drawing up genealogies and lineages, and establishes the transmission of arms. The work is also a manual of heraldic law. The arms of Jean Scohier are azure, three winged stags salient sable. 19th-century engraved bookplate with the quartered arms of the Duke of Guillaboz. A manuscript note on the endpaper: Bibliot. De Fontette. N°39986. Description of the three editions of 1597, 1629 and 1630.
Contemporary rigid full vellum binding. Smooth spine with handwritten title (faded). An old dampstain at the bottom of the upper board.
The work is one of the best heraldry books, and deals with the constitution of coats of arms and the significance of armorial bearings; it contains a method for drawing up genealogies and lineages, and establishes the transmission of arms. The work is also a manual of heraldic law. The arms of Jean Scohier are azure, three winged stags salient sable. 19th-century engraved bookplate with the quartered arms of the Duke of Guillaboz. A manuscript note on the endpaper: Bibliot. De Fontette. N°39986. Description of the three editions of 1597, 1629 and 1630.
€700