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BROSSES DE TOURNAY, THESUT DE VERREY & LE COMPASSEUR DE COURTIVRON. Catalogs and coats of arms of the gentlemen who attended the Estates General of the Duchy of Burgundy, from the year M.D.XLVIII. Until the year M.D.C.LXXXII. Taken from the registers of the Chamber of Nobility. Dijon, Durand, 1760. Large folio, marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, gilt roulette on the edges. First edition illustrated with a fine vignette, an allegorical frontispiece by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin after Cochin fils decorated with the coats of arms of the principal towns of Burgundy, 36 burin-engraved plates of coats of arms and 6 genealogical tables of the former Kings and Dukes of Burgundy, which are missing from most copies. This handsome work is based on the archives of the Chambre de la Noblesse de Bourgogne. (Saffroy 18968; Quérard IX, 412.) A fine copy bearing the arms of the University of Dijon. Founded in 1722, at the request of the States of Burgundy, it included only a faculty of law. Its patrons were the Duke of Bourbon, then the governors of Burgundy. It was abolished during the French Revolution. (O.H.R. n°1589).

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BROSSES DE TOURNAY, THESUT DE VERREY & LE COMPASSEUR DE COURTIVRON. Catalogs and coats of arms of the gentlemen who attended the Estates General of the Duchy of Burgundy, from the year M.D.XLVIII. Until the year M.D.C.LXXXII. Taken from the registers of the Chamber of Nobility. Dijon, Durand, 1760. Large folio, marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, gilt roulette on the edges. First edition illustrated with a fine vignette, an allegorical frontispiece by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin after Cochin fils decorated with the coats of arms of the principal towns of Burgundy, 36 burin-engraved plates of coats of arms and 6 genealogical tables of the former Kings and Dukes of Burgundy, which are missing from most copies. This handsome work is based on the archives of the Chambre de la Noblesse de Bourgogne. (Saffroy 18968; Quérard IX, 412.) A fine copy bearing the arms of the University of Dijon. Founded in 1722, at the request of the States of Burgundy, it included only a faculty of law. Its patrons were the Duke of Bourbon, then the governors of Burgundy. It was abolished during the French Revolution. (O.H.R. n°1589).

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