Traité de la noblesse [...].

4to: [24]-400 [=498]-[2] pp. (single marg. wormhole in begin., sl. dampstaining, some foxing, somes quires sl. browned, marg. wormholes and/or wormtracks).

Contemp. sprinkled calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, spr. edges (sl. rubbed, white shadow on covers, sm. def. to upper turn-in).

First edition of the work on nobility by the famous French heraldist and genealogist G.-A. de La Roque (1597-1686). Copy with one leaf of "Additions" instead of two.
Ref. Saffroy 8705. - Cp. De Ghellinck 117 & 324 (ed. of Rouen and Paris, 1710).
Prov. Baron Eugène de Thysebaert (ms. entry). - Baron de Thysbaert (bookpl.).