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Paul Bostock Rare Books

Antiquarian, natural history, travel, early photography, manuscripts, ephemera and the interesting and unusual.

CONTRIBUTION A L’ÉTUDE DU BLASON EN ORIENT

Description

First Edition, Limited to 300 numbered copies, this number 89. Size 8vo, 23 x 15cm Bound in original linen cloth with gilt and blue embossed lettering and decoration. Binding solid, slight wear to corners, spine dulled. Top edge gilt. Former library copy with blind stamp on rear board & small blind stamps to plates. Text and plates in very good clean condition, original tissue guards present. Text in French. Superbly illustrated with 58 plates of heraldic symbols, Complete, as called for, printed in red, black & colours, some highlighted with gold. Chromolithographs. Also b&w photographic plates & text illustrations. Complete, as called for. A very nice example.

Price

£495.00