Author: Rietstap, J.B.
Title: Armorial général, contenant la description des armoiries des familles nobles et patriciennes de l'Europe: précédé d'un dictionnaire des termes du blason.
Description: Gouda, G.B. van Goor, 1861. VI,1171 pp. 5 single-page b./w. lithographed plts. - [AND:] V.H.Rolland. Armorial général de J.B.Rietstap. Supplément. [= Fascicules I - XXXVI & Appendices I - III]. La Haye, Martinus Nijhoff, 1926. 2 vols. [6],55,50,[2],57,[1],58,28,623,[1],101, [1],928,4,[4] pp. Text-ills & 2 large fold. tables. - [AND:] Roland,V. Armoiries des familles contenues dans l'Amorial General de J.B.Rietstap. / Planches l'Armorial Général de J.B. Rietstap. Paris, Institute Heraldique [Universel] & La Haye, Martinus Nijhoff, 1903-1926. 6 vols. 2026 single-page b./w. plts with ca. 110.000 coats of arms. - Three works in 9 raised h.calf bindings, top-edges gilt. Last two works in uniform bindings (modern endapers, minor shelf wear & spines of last volumes partly discol./waterstained), first work in diff. h.calf binding, mabled boards. Bindings in three different sizes (as issued), bound in the second half of the 20th century.Rather rare original set. - - Johannes Baptista Rietstap (Rotterdam, May 12, 1828 - The Hague, December 24, 1891) was a Dutch civil servant, stenographer, genealogist and heraldist. He has remained well known for his monumental work in the field of heraldry. Rietstaps Armorial Général with the description of the coat of arms of 110,000 families is the most complete printed overview of coat of arms and is considered a standard work within heraldry.

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