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La science heroique : traitant de la noblesse, et de l'origine des armes; de leurs blasons, & symboles; des timbres, bourlets, couronnes, cimiers, lambrequins, supports, tenans, & autres ornamens de l'ecu; de la devise, & du cry de guerre; de l'ecu pendant, des pas, & emprises des anciens chevaliers, & des formes differentes de leurs tombeaux; et enfin des marques exterieures de l'ecu de nos rois, des reines, enfans de France, & des officiers de la couronne, & de la maison du Roy / Par Marc De Wlson ...
Other title: Science heroiqve
Seconde edition.
A Paris : Chez Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, imprimeur du Roy, ruë S. Jacques aux Cicognes., MDCLXIX. [1669]
[14], 540, [20] p. : ill. (engravings) ; fol.
In French.
Marc De Wlson = Denis Salvaing de Boissieu.
Added engraved t.p.
Includes index.
Engraved device on t.p. and engraved plates by Huret.
Possibly Thuanus' copy ; bookseller's note pasted to front pastedown suggests that it is so and that his Arms are on the covers. The arms do not resemble Thuanus' most prominent coat of arms, although apparently he had three versions over the course of his life.
Bookplate of John Moore Paget on front pastedown.
Book label recording donation to ECL from Josephus Fridericus Burrell on front pastedown.
Ms. note on front pastedown: "11 francs, Paris, October 1829".
Contemporary brown calf ; armorial stamped in gilt on boards with the motto "Compensat vindicat aequat" and a wreath and scales ; gilt tooling on spine.
Heraldry France Early works to 1800.
Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553 - 1617 former owner.
Mabre-Cramoisy, Sébastien. printer.
Paget, John Moore former owner.
France Paris.
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