"A SHORT HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of such marks and ensignes of honour, as are commonly called Armes: shewing their originall, true use, and the antient practise in bearing them. Whereunto are added (f. 50) certain breife observations touching the antiquitie of Heraulds, their imployments, rights, pri...
"LES PRINCIPES DU BLASON," by T[homas] Dingley; with penand ink drawings, consisting of heraldic illustrations, arms of a few French nobles, and drawings of animals and landscapes, and a frontispiece of Orpheus playing- to wild beasts. At the end, reversing the volume, is a "Sermon [by Thos. Len...
THE ART of Blazoning-; with numerous coats-of-arms, coloured or tricked, in illustration. Followed (f. 14) by a Catalogue of the Baronets of England from the institution of the order in 1611 to 1721; with their respective arms in blazon, and the first thirteen also in trick. Paper; ff. 47. XVIII...
Vol. I. ff. 122. XVIIIth cent. Seals: Treatise on, with drawings, by J. Anstis: 18th cent. England General Chronicles and History: Facsimile and autograph signatures of sovereigns, Hen. VI.-Geo. II.: 18th cent. Charters: Drawings of, with indices: 18th cent. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Additions...
"ASPILOGIA, sive de Iconibus scutariis gentilitiis commentarius," by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), with additions by Thomas Astle. In two volumes. The first part of Vol. 1. is divided into thirteen chapters, in the autograph of Anstis, as follows:-Chap. i.-vi. Introductory treatise on the antiquity and history of seals, and their uses and value for heraldic and other purposes. ff. 1-21;-Chap. vii. Seals of the Crown. f. 21 b;-Chap. viii. Seals of the Nobility. f. 38;-Chap. ix....
Vol. II. ff. 143. XVIIIth cent. Seals: Treatise on, with drawings, by J. Anstis: 18th cent. England General Chronicles and History: Facsimile and autograph signatures of sovereigns, Hen. VI.-Geo. II.: 18th cent. Charters: Drawings of, with indices: 18th cent. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Addition...
"ART OF HERALDRY: 41 [coloured] plates of arms blazoned, by the late Thomas Barber." With an index of names. Paper; ff. 88. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Small Quarto. Heraldry: Art of, by T. Barber: 17th-18th cent. Thomas Barber: Art of Heraldry: 17th-18th cent.
COLLECTION relating to heraldry, etc.:- 1. "Mémoir de ce que le t[re]sexcellent et tresuictorieux Roy [Hen. VII.] dangleterre ara a faire quant il sera mande venir aux chapitres generaulx de lordre de la toison dor, dont il est frere et compaignon," consisting of forms of procuration, etc. ff....
HERALDIC COLLECTIONS, in English and Welsh, viz.:- 1. Copy of an ordinance (imperf. at beg.) concerning the duties of heralds in processions, etc., dated 3 Sept. 1417, and of another ordinance regulating the fees of the serjeant-at-arms; n. d. f. 1. 2. Analysis of the contents of the volume;...
HERALDIC COLLECTIONS, viz.;- 1. English arms in trick, granted for the most part temp. Eliz.; the, first part (ff. 1-56) copied from a MS. written by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux 1567-1592 (see f. 56). f. 1. 2. Northamptonshire arms in blazon, with a few others. In the same, hand as art. 6. f. 8...