A Display Of Heraldry. By John Guillim. The 5th Edition much enlarged. Manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method, whereunto it is now reduced by study and industry. To which is added a Treatise Of Honour Military & Civil [Analogia Honorum in 2 Parts 1677 & 1678] . collected out of the most authentick authors both ancient and modern by Captain John Logan. Illustrated with variety of sculptures . with a Catalogue Of The Atchievements [sic] of the nobility of England, with divers of the gentry, for examples of bearings.

Published by Roycroft for Blome 1679.

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* With 2 Additional Plates. * 5th Edition : The Display with numerous armorial figures throughout the text : and the Analogia Honorum with numerous engraved portraits and also engraved plates of armorial bearings : see note below. Contemporary mottled calf, handsomely rebacked and recornered in modern niger morocco, spine with green morocco label and gilt armorial insignia. Folio, pp[xii] + 317 + [9]; Analogia Honorum pp181 + [9]. Original mottled calf a little dried on the surface, else an excellent copy. See Lowndes calling for 73 plates : this copy with a portrait of the Earl of Craven rather than the portrait of the Baron of Worlabye called for by Lowndes : ** and with 2 additional ** portrait plates making 75 plates in all. Guillim's great work in which he 'indeed systematised and illustrated the whole science of heraldry' [DNB]. One of the best editions : with the first appearance of Logan's Treatise with its 'hundreds of engravings of arms and many full-length portraits, some after Vandyck' [DNB]. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

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A Display Of Heraldry. By John Guillim. The 5th Edition much enlarged. Manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method, whereunto it is now reduced by study and industry. To which is added a Treatise Of Honour Military & Civil [Analogia Honorum in 2 Parts 1677 & 1678] . collected out of the most authentick authors both ancient and modern by Captain John Logan. Illustrated with variety of sculptures . with a Catalogue Of The Atchievements [sic] of the nobility of England, with divers of the gentry, for examples of bearings.
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HERALDRY : John Guillim : Captain John Logan : Vandyck.
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Roycroft for Blome 1679.
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ADAM MILLS RARE BOOKS : selling books internationally from Cambridge since 1980 §§ Adam Mills Rare Books began in 1980 and for 35 years has consistently offered high quality books covering English Literature [mainly 19th Century] : Private Press and Illustrated Books : and Typography and Books About Books. §§ After St Andrew's University, and post-graduate at the Warburg Institute under E. H. Gombrich, Adam Mills worked for five years with the historic 18thC Cambridge booksellers Deighton, Bell & Co. §§ Adam Mills Rare Books is situated just outside the magnificent University city of Cambridge, with its stunning array of ancient and modern architecture, and its superb copyright Library.

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