Rasgo heroyco: declaracion de la empressas, armas, y blasones con que se ilustran, y conocen los principales Reynos, Provincias, Ciudades, y Villas de España, y compendio instrumentàl de su historia, en el que se dà noticia de la Patria de S. Fernando, Rey de Castilla, y Leon ....
by MOYA, Antonio de
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About This Item
Madrid, Por Manuel de Moya, 1756.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary vellum (remains of two ties, lacks front free endleaf, front inner joint loose), horizontal manuscript title on spine, text block edges sprinkled red. Small woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut initials, headpiece and tailpiece. Repair to lower 2.5 cm. of title page, affecting a few letters of imprint. Fairly light waterstains in lower margins, sometimes extending into text block. Lower outer corner torn away from leaf Dd4 without any loss of text. In good to very good condition. Armorial bookplate of Biblioteca Casa Lasqueti. Two small shelf marks, the first scored but still legible, in upper outer corner of title-page. Ink inscription of Manuel Fernandez [Puãl?], Administrator of the Lottery in [illeg.], dated Madrid September 21, 1795. Eighteenth-century manuscript notes in lower margin of p. 94, on p. 272, on recto of rear free endpaper, and elsewhere. (20 ll.), 382 pp., (5 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of this important work on Spanish heraldry, containing historical descriptions of the coats-of-arms of many municipalities large and small. *** Palau 183823. Graesse IV, 618. Aguilar Pinal 6033. Salvá 3583. Heredia 7554. Whitehead M371. NUC: MiU, NNH, MH.
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- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books
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- Rasgo heroyco: declaracion de la empressas, armas, y blasones con que se ilustran, y conocen los principales Reynos, Provincias, Ciudades, y Villas de España, y compendio instrumentàl de su historia, en el que se dà noticia de la Patria de S. Fernando, Rey de Castilla, y Leon ....
- Author
- MOYA, Antonio de
- Book Condition
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- FIRST EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Madrid, Por Manuel de Moya, 1756.
- Keywords
- Spanish history, heraldry, coats–of–arms, Basque history, Bilbao, Guernica Tafalla
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