Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 329

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(HERALDRY.) Manuscript volume of aristocratic arms. Approximately 100 leaves of laid paper containing over 275 ink and gouache illustrations of primarily English coats of arms. 4to, 11 1/2x7 1/2 inches, contemporary limp vellum, minor wear at spine ends and extremities; some later pencil marginalia, light spotting and edge toning. [England, 17th century]

Additional Details

Several full-page European crests are followed by a profusion of neatly rendered and blazoned arms of contemporary English notables. A manuscript alphabetical index to the illustrations appears on the final leaves.