149 - [HERALDRY - BRITTANY] LA ROQUE, Louis de and BARTHÉLEMY, Édouard de. Catalog of the Gentlemen of Brittany Who Took Part in the Assemblies of the Nobility of That Province in 1746, 1764, and 1789; Published Based on the Official Minutes.

[HERALDRY - BRITTANY] LA ROQUE, Louis de and BARTHÉLEMY, Édouard de. Catalog of the Gentlemen of Brittany Who Took Part in the Assemblies of the Nobility of That Province in 1746, 1764, and 1789; Published Based on the Official Minutes. Paris, E. Dentu, Bookseller – A. Aubry, 1865. Large 8vo, brown half-maroquin, ribbed spine, panels decorated with a repeated metal stamp depicting a helmet in profile, brown leather title label. IV and 1,316 pp., 4 plates. Some scuffing, particularly along the raised bands and edges; title label is incorrect, announcing J.B. Rietstap’s *Armorial Général*. First edition, printed in two columns, indispensable for the genealogical study of the Breton nobility at the end of the Ancien Régime. On the inside front cover, an imposing engraved ex-libris bearing a coat of arms, signed “Noblet.”