Author: Poli, Vicomte Oscar de.
Title: Livre d'or du comité international des Ordres Équestres Pontificaux. (Jubilé sacerdotal de S. S. Léon XIII).
Description: Paris, Siège du Comité, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Royal quarto. Pp. 254, (i). Plus etched frontispiece; 22 wood-engraved portraits; and 3 chromolithographed plates, all printed on fine thick paper, each with protective tissue guard. Numerous charming engraved head- and tail-pieces. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary handsome red calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands between compartments, gilt lettering-piece, green vellum French corners, handsome marbled endpapers. Preliminaries and blanks at beginning and end foxed. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. With attractive, albeit unidentified, old engraved armorial bookplate to first paste-down. G-3 .

Keywords: HERALDRY HERALDIC GENEALOGY COATS-OF-ARMS CREST CRESTS SYMBOL SYMBOLS SHIELD SHIELDS PHALERISTICS CHIVALRY MERIT CHIVALRIC DYNASTIC, FRATERNAL CIVIL HONOR HONORS HONOUR HONOURS RIBBON BARS AWARD BADGES PINS HÉRALDIQUE GÉNÉALOGIE MANTEAU DES ARMES CRÊTE CR


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