Blasone Veneto o gentilizie insegne delle Famiglie patrizie. Oggi esistenti in Venezia, delineato già dal P. Generale Coronelli, e ristampato con nuove aggiunte. Dedicato All'Illustriss., & Eccellentis.Sig. Francesco Rota, Nobile veneto.

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12mo (136 x 103 mm), engraved title page, pp. [xvi], ll. 114 engravings of coats of arms (9 per page); contemporary ownership inscription and stamp of A. Marcello Cavalli to margin of title page and last leaf; original buff wrappers; a very wide-margined copy. Second edition (first published in 1693) of this guide to the coats of arms of the Venetian families. Coronelli provides a brief introduction to the different elements of coats of arms, illustrated on the first two engraved plates. He gives the crowns and crests of the lay dignitaries, followed by the insignia of the ecclesiastical offices. Seventy-eight crests of the cities of the Veneto region are depicted, all drawn by the cosmographer P. Coronelli. The main section presents 930 coats of arms of the patrician families of the Veneto, many with multiple variants attributed to the numerous branches of these families (the Contarini count more than 20) - in all 1008 coats of arms are given. Cicogna 2222. N° de ref. del artículo 4442

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