Menestrier L'art du blason iustifié 1661

HERALDY. MENESTRIER, Claude-François. L'art du blason iustifié ou les prevves du veritable art du blason. Establies par diverses authoritez, & par plusieures exemples tirez de la pratique universelle des armoiries, depuis sid cent ans dans toutes les nationes de l'Europe. Avec le methode abbregée des principes heraldiques. Lyon, Benoit Coral, 1661. 12mo. (24), 371, (8) pp. 8 engraved plates (partly heraldic), partly in later hand-colouring (spotting). Contemporary full calf, worn and with damages. The title leaf repaired holes after a removed signature, and pasted on old paper. From the library of Bengt Olof Kälde, with his book plate.Berndt 1895. Brunet III, 1626. First edition. This is an answer to Claude Le Laboureur's "Épitre apolegetique pour le discours ..." (Lyon 1660) which was a defence against the polemic attack by Menestrier in "Discours de l'origine des armes ...", Lyon 1658. Claude-François Menestrier (1631-1705) wrote several book on heraldry, for instance "Le Véritable a