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[MILLES (Thomas)]. The Catalogue of honor, or Tresury of true nobility peculiar and proper to the isle of Great Britaine... wherunto is properly prefixed a special treatise of that kind of nobility... London, printed by W. Jaggard, 1610. in-folio, [4 (of 5?)] f. (including engraved title), 99 p. (miscalculated 97), [4] f., 1130 p., [1] f. (errata), figs, antique blond half calf, renewed 5-ribbed tan spine, red title and author labels, cold-stamped arms at center of boards, corners restored, endpapers renewed, title restored (holes on painted image p.527-531; qq. rare browned ff.; without f. A2). First English edition of this work, which opens with a title engraved by Renold Elstrake, and is illustrated with numerous woodcut coats of arms in the text. As in most copies, a passage of text has been cut out and deleted on page 493. An exceptional copy, with many of the figures watercolored, and a remarkable provenance: it is enriched by an autograph dedication from Mary Cholmondeley (née Rolford), Hugh's wife circa 1620, to her son-in-law Sir Richard Grosvenor, ancestor of the Duke of Westminster. Provenance: Sir Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster (arms on boards, and engraved bookplate). (Brunet III, 1719; Th. Moule, Bibl. heraldica, 1966, p.66-69).

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[MILLES (Thomas)]. The Catalogue of honor, or Tresury of true nobility peculiar and proper to the isle of Great Britaine... wherunto is properly prefixed a special treatise of that kind of nobility... London, printed by W. Jaggard, 1610. in-folio, [4 (of 5?)] f. (including engraved title), 99 p. (miscalculated 97), [4] f., 1130 p., [1] f. (errata), figs, antique blond half calf, renewed 5-ribbed tan spine, red title and author labels, cold-stamped arms at center of boards, corners restored, endpapers renewed, title restored (holes on painted image p.527-531; qq. rare browned ff.; without f. A2). First English edition of this work, which opens with a title engraved by Renold Elstrake, and is illustrated with numerous woodcut coats of arms in the text. As in most copies, a passage of text has been cut out and deleted on page 493. An exceptional copy, with many of the figures watercolored, and a remarkable provenance: it is enriched by an autograph dedication from Mary Cholmondeley (née Rolford), Hugh's wife circa 1620, to her son-in-law Sir Richard Grosvenor, ancestor of the Duke of Westminster. Provenance: Sir Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster (arms on boards, and engraved bookplate). (Brunet III, 1719; Th. Moule, Bibl. heraldica, 1966, p.66-69).

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