MÉNESTRIER (Claude-François). Nouvelle méthode raisonnée du - Lot 168

MÉNESTRIER (Claude-François). Nouvelle méthode raisonnée du blason, pour l'apprendre d'une manière aisée, réduite en leçons, par demandes & réponses. A Lyon, chez les frères Bruyset, 1728. In-12, [4] f., 298 p., [15] f. (table, privil.), fr., pl., contemporary glazed havana calf, 5-ribbed spine, fawn title page, ornate caissons, red edges (defects including uncovered headpieces, rubbed nerves, dull corners; browning, front. trimmed in foot margin). New, revised and corrected edition of one of Father Ménestrier's most famous and frequently republished works. Like the original published in 1696, it is illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece and 32 plates, as well as woodcut figures in the text on pages 24 to 35. (Allut, n° CXVIII).