Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 510
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(HERALDRY.) Spener, Philipp Jakob. Historia insignium illustrium seu Operis heraldici pars specialis. Continens delineationem insignium plerorumque Regum, Ducum, Principum, Comitum & Baronum in cultiori Europa. 35 engraved plates, each with multiple coats-of-arms. [14], 36, 256, 261-322, 327-610 pages, 611-14 leaves, 615-778, [32] pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. Folio, 17th-century Dutch vellum with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, spine darkened, turn-ins sprung; contents browned with scattered marginal stains. Frankfurt am Main: Johann Dietrich Friedgen for Johann David Zunner the Younger, 1680

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Companion volume to Spener's Insignium theoria seu Operis heraldici pars generalis, which only appeared a decade later.