Chevalier : Histoire des ordres militaires et des chevaliers (1721)

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BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL Jacques & GIUSTINIANI Abbot
History of military orders or knights, secular and regular militias of both sexes, which have been established up to the present

– Chez Pierre Brunel, A Amsterdam 1721, In-8° (10 x16 cm), contemporary full calfskin binding, salmon edges, small gaps in caps, rubbed joints, 4 blunted joints, the fourth volume is in a somewhat different binding (missing caps in this volume). XXXII (16) 163 pp. (10) 254 pp. and (4) 441pp. (1), (4) 471pp. & 439 pp. & 10 ff. table First edition illustrated with 181 plates, most of costumes and others of insignia or decorations of these orders, drawn by Bernard Picard and by Schoonebeck, engraved with a burin by W. Jonkman. 

 At the head of the work The History of the duels of Basnage de Beauval 
to the address of Pierre Brunel. The work also lists some female orders, all the orders and the chronological succession of the great masters
Complete in four volumes.

History of military orders or knights, secular and regular militias of both sexes, which have been established up to the present – Chez Pierre Brunel, A Amsterdam 1721, In-8° (10 x16 cm), contemporary full calfskin binding, salmon edges, small gaps in caps, rubbed joints, 4 blunted joints, the fourth volume is in a somewhat different binding (missing caps in this volume). XXXII (16) 163 pp. (10) 254 pp. and (4) 441pp. (1), (4) 471pp. & 439 pp. & 10 ff. table First edition illustrated with 181 plates, most of costumes and others of insignia or decorations of these orders, drawn by Bernard Picard and by Schoonebeck, engraved with a burin by W. Jonkman.  to the address of Pierre Brunel. The work also lists some female orders, all the orders and the chronological succession of the great master