Military Orders & Chivalric Organizations 1721

Description

Histoire des ordres militaires ou des chevaliers, des milices séculières et régulières de l'un & de l'autre sexe, qui ont été établies jusques à présent. Amsterdam: Pierre Brunel, 1721. Four-volume original edition, 8vo (10 x 16 cm). Full contemporary calf binding, salmon-colored edges, minor defects to headbands, worn joints, four blunt hinges; fourth volume in slightly different binding with headband losses. Pagination: XXXII (16) 163 pp., (10) 254 pp., (4) 441 pp., (1) (4) 471 pp., 439 pp., and 10 ff. of index. Illustrated with 181 engraved plates, mostly depicting costumes, insignia, and decorations of military orders, drawn by Bernard Picard and Schoonebeck, engraved by W. Jonkman. Includes L'Histoire des duels by Basnage de Beauval. Comprehensive treatment of military and secular orders, including feminine orders, with chronological succession of grand masters.