Military Orders and Knights History

Description

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, Amsterdam 1721. In-8° (10 x 16 cm). Contemporary full calfskin binding, salmon edges, small gaps in caps, rubbed joints, 4 blunted joints; fourth volume in somewhat different binding (missing caps). XXXII (16) 163 pp., (10) 254 pp., (4) 441 pp., (1) (4) 471 pp., 439 pp., 10 ff. table. First edition illustrated with 181 engraved plates, mostly depicting costumes and insignia or decorations of these orders, drawn by Bernard Picard and Schoonebeck, engraved with burin by W. Jonkman. Includes History of duels by Basnage de Beauval. Work lists female orders, all orders, and chronological succession of grand masters. Complete in four volumes.