48 - [EMBLEMS]. [VERIEN (Nicolas)]. COLLECTION OF COATS OF ARMS, MOTTOES, MEDALS, AND HIEROGLYPHIC FIGURES, numbering more than twelve hundred, with their explanations: accompanied by more than two thousand simple, double, and triple ornate figures: presented in a novel and highly intriguing manner for every conceivable name: along with the supporters, bases, and crests used to adorn coats of arms: this work, enriched with two hundred and fifty intaglio plates, is very useful to engravers, painters, sculptors, goldsmiths, embroiderers, locksmiths, and all those who work with designs. [Paris, Jombert, 1724]. Three parts in one 8vo volume in marbled fawn sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label in garnet morocco, edges speckled in red (contemporary binding). Part 1: [MISSING: the frontispiece portrait and the first 3 folios containing the general title, subtitle, 1 full-page allegorical engraving, and dedication to the Dauphin], 62 pp. (including title page) and 62 plates, 16 pp. of tables - Part 2: (1) title leaf, 153 pp. of plates, 24 pp. of tables - Part 3: (1) table leaf, 14/17 pp. of plates [the last 3 pages are missing]. Restoration to the binding; light foxing; water stains on the lower margins, slightly affecting the engravings on the 14 plates in the last part. Handwritten bookplate “Louis Coste - 1840” at the top of the first title page, followed by an inked “Bregeon” bookplate stamp on the first blank leaf. THIRD EDITION of this VERY RARE WORK OF EMBLEMS in 3 parts. Unfortunately, the first and last leaves are MISSING, as described in the book’s collation. AS IS.