CHIFFLET, Joannes Jacobus

Insignia Gentilitia Equitum Ordinis Velleris Aurei... The Coat of Arms of all the Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece Antverpiae Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti 1632 Pet. in-4°, [32] + 232 + [14] pp. + [1 f. bl.], illus. with engraved vignette on title page, allegorical copperplate engraved frontispiece, printer's mark on verso of last leaf. Text printed on 2 cols; text in French and Latin. O.E. of this work listing 378 knights of the order, with descriptions of their coats of arms. Pages 229-232 have only the running title, with no apparent gaps in the text. Contemporary full vellum binding (soiled), double gilt fillet around the boards, gilt title on the spine, red speckled edges Early heraldic survey of the Order of the Golden Fleece by the Burgundian antiquary Jean-Jacques Chifflet (1588-1660). Provenance: Ph. Kervyn de Volkaersbeke; Viscount de Ghellinck Vaernewyck (ms. annotation on endpaper). Ref. de Ghellinck 1400