Live auction - Lot 1250
[Nobility - Heraldry]
La Toscane françoise, contenant les éloges historiques & généalogiques des princes, seigneurs, & grands capitaines de la Toscane, lesquels ont esté affectionnez à la couronne de France [...].
Paris, J. Piot, 1661
Hammer price: €
120
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: engr. title-[10]-560 [= 558] pp. (some marg. stains, sl. marg. damp stain to quire Ppp).
Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine titled in ink.
Rare first edition of this work on the genealogy and heraldry of Tuscan families (i.a. the Medici (opening the work), the Arnolfini, Barberini, Bandinelli, Falconi, Magalotti, Perussi and Strozzi). Illustrated with a copper-engr. title, the full-page coat of arms of the author and 51 large blasons in-text. The French writer J.-B. L'Hermite de Soliers (1610-1670?), is mostly known as genealogist.
Ref. Saffroy II:33155.
Prov. J[oh]an (?) "s[eigneu]r de Rolÿ" (contemp. ms. entry). - Presle (18th-c. ms. entry). - Mod. bookpl.