Shelfmark
Gk.5.17
Author
Title
La Toscane françoise, contenant les éloges historiques & genealogiques des princes, seigneurs et grands capitaines de la Toscane, lesquels ont esté affectionnez à la couronne de France. Ensemble leurs armes grauée & blasonnées en taille douce; auec les couronnes, manteaux, colliers, timbres, & autres ornements. Par messire Jean-Baptiste L'Hermite de Soliers, dit Tristan, cheualier de l'Ordre du Roy, & l'vn des gentils-hommes seruans de sa Majesté..
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Iean Piot, libraire iuré, ruë Sainct Iacques, au Sainct Esprit, & à la Salmandre d'Argent., M. DC. LXI. [1661]
Physical description
[6], 560, [4] p. : coats of arms (xylographs); 25 cm. (4to)
Note
Signatures: ã⁴ (-ã4) A-2L⁴ 2M-2N⁸ 2O⁶ 2P-3Z⁴.
Note
Includes head- and tail-pieces; decorated initials.
Note
Frontispiece drawn by J. Daret.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
?18th/19th-century armorial binding -- mottled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilted coat of arms displaying three birds (unidentified). Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, and titling ("Toscane francoi"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Unpaginated table of contents has been inserted between pp. 280-281 -- it was probably due to appear after p. 560.
Copy-specific note
?Early modern ms. notes on front pastedown and flyleaf: "[symbol] 25" "M2 6" (possibly former shelfmarks) "In Posterum".
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.3.9.
Subject
Heraldry Italy Tuscany Early works to 1800.
Subject
Nobility Italy Tuscany Early works to 1800.
Subject
Tuscany (Italy) Genealogy Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Piot, Jean, 1605? - 1675 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51357