Lot 08065

Boisseau Jean. (Enlumineur du Roy pour les cartes géographiques), “LES NOMS, QUALITEZ, Armes & Blasons de tous Chevaliers de la Thoison d’Or, depuis la premiere Institution faite par Philippe Duc de Bourgogne, dit le Bon. Premier Chef, & dudit Ordre l’an 1429”, Paris, Gervais Clausier et Olivier de Varennes, 1657. Folio, pp. [3], 5-44, [8] table de Chevaliers, [1 blanc]. Title page with engraving of Jason with ‘’le toison d’or’’, engraved initials & headpieces, 19 large copper engravings (coat of arms) with two of them (pp.13 & 40) cut & removed. Spine in vellum, marbled paper boards. Worn along extremities and corners. Holes and paper cracks from pp.29-44 & the next 3 sheets. Few engravings partly hand-coloured.

Rare, Brunet notes only a similar edition of 1658, only a copy tracked at the B.N. de France.