This is the third group of heraldry books that I am offering for sale in hopes of reducing the weight and size of my library, please note that offers on large numbers of books will be entertained. If there are any books on this list that interest you, feel free to contact me through PM, e-mail or by telephone.
HASLER, Charles The Royal Arms. Its Graphic and Decorative Development,
London, Jupiter Books, 1980. 1st Edition. Cloth HB. A good copy, Dust wrapper torn at upper spine. Inscription on frontispiece. HEAVY book, Folio. $20.00
BEDINGFIELD, Henry, and GWYNN-JONES, Peter. Heraldry. Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc. 1993. Cloth HB with dust wrapper. A good copy with minor shelf wear & beautiful illustrations. Folio. $10.00
FAIRBAIRN, James, Fairbairn’s Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland. Poole, Dorset, UK, New Orchard Editions, 1986 reprint. Cloth HB with dust wrapper & plastic covering. Very good copy with embossed Exlibis & heraldic stamp of Polish noble coat-of-arms on the frontispiece. 597 pages, 144 individual plates & 44 plate description pages. Thick heavy book. $35.00
WOODWARD, John and BURNETT, George, A Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign with English and French Glossaries. Rutland, Vermont, Charles Tuttle Co., 1969 reprint. Cloth HB with dust wrapper. A very good copy with minor wear to the spine of the dust wrapper. 858 pages and 56 individual plates. Thick heavy book. $45.00
LAROQUE, Lucinda de (Editor), Debrett’s Handbook, 1986. London, Debrett’s Peerage, 1986. Gold-Embossed Cloth HB with dust wrapper (slightly rumpled with a few tears), Quarto. 1,810 pages plus 192 pages of introduction and prelims. A very good copy. $20.00
Book Lot: PINE, L.G., Titles, How the King Became His Majesty. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1992. HB with dust wrapper in excellent condition. PINE, L.G., Heraldry, Ancestry and Titles, Gramercy, 1965. HB with scruffy dust wrapper, 270 pages. $6.00
Book lot: FRIAR, Stephen, Heraldry for the Local Historian and Genealogist. The History Press, 1996. PB in excellent condition. INNES-SMITH, Robert, An Outline of Heraldry in England and Scotland, PB, 24 pages. BRITISH MUSEUM, British Heraldry from Its Origins to c. 1800, a 1978 exhibition catalogue compiled by Robert Marks and Anne Payne. PB in excellent condition, 135 pages. GAYRE, Robert, The Nature of Arms, Oliver & Boyd, 1961. HB in very good condition with a few tears in the dust wrapper, 168 pages and 8 colour plates. $20.00
Book lot: DE-LA-NOY, Michael, The Honours System , Allison & Bushby, London: 1985. HB in excellent condition, 190 pages. DE LA BERE, Brigadier Sir Ivan, The Queen’s Orders of Chivalry, Spring Books, 1964. HB V. good condition with small tears in the dust wrapper, 228 pages. WINCESTER, Simon, Their Noble Lordships, Class and Power in Modern Britain, Random House, 1982. HB V. good condition with one small tears in the dust wrapper, 281 pages. $20.00
Book lot: The Publications of the Harleian Society: Volume 117 The Visitation of Dorset 1677, London 1977. HB in excellent condition, 124 pages; Volume 9 New Series The Bigland Pedigree Index London, 1990. HB in excellent condition, 278 pages; Volume 15 New Series The Visitation Herefordshire 1634, London, 2002. HB in excellent condition, 252 pages; $30.00
SIRE, H.J.A., The Knights of Malta, Yale University Press, 1994. Large HB in excellent condition, 124 pages; $18.00
BUSH, Michael, Noble Privilege, Holmes Meier 1983. HB w/ dust wrapper in v. good condition, 194 pages. A very hard to find and expensive book on the esoteric topic of the legal status, obligations, privileges (heraldry) and rights of the European nobility. $18.00
Book lot: GRENHAM, John, Clans and Families of Ireland, The Heritage and Heraldry of Irish Clans and Families, Barnes & Noble, 2001. HB with dust wrapper in excellent condition, 188 pages; ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND, Journal Volume 128, 1998, PB in exc. condition, 136 pages; Journal Volume 130, 2000, PB in exc. condition, 147 pages; Journal Volume 131, 2001, PB in exc. condition, 175 pages; Journal Volume 132, 2002, PB in exc. condition, 177 pages; Journal Volume 133, 2003, PB in exc. condition, 201 pages; Journal Volume 134, 2004, PB in exc. condition, 190 pages. $30.00
More books to be posted soon
Book lot: COLE, Herbert. Heraldry Decoration and Floral Forms, Crescent Books, 1988. HB with dust wrapper in excellent condition, 248 pages; SPURRIER, Peter, The Heraldic Art Source Book Blandford, 1997. HB with dust wrapper in excellent condition, 121 pages. $12.00
Book lot: HERALDRY SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND, Emblems of Scotland. HSS, 1997. PB in excellent condition, 52 pages; DENNIS, M.D., Scottish Heraldry HSS, 1999. PB in excellent condition, 25 pages. $12.00
Book lot: DENNYS, Rodney, Heraldry and the Heralds J. Cape, 1982. HB with dust wrapper in excellent condition, 285 pages; BOUTELL, Charles, revised by Scott-Giles, Boutell’s Heraldry, Warne, 1954. HB in good condition, spine a bit loose. 316 pages; BROOK-LITTLE, J.P., An Heraldic Alphabet, Robson, 1996. PB in exc. condition, 234 pages. $24.00
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