Illustrated history of the Order of the Golden Fleece, one of the great knightly orders of Europe, founded in 1429 - late mediaeval costume & drapery

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REIFFENBERG, Fréderic-Auguste-Ferdinand-Thomas de. Histoire de l'ordre de la Toison d'Or, depuis son institution jusqu'a la cessation des chapitres généraux; tirée des archives mémes de cet ordre et des écrivains qui en ont traité. Brussels, 1830. Large 4to. lxxxi + 588p. With 10 lithographed plates (3 folding, 6 coloured). Contemporary half calf, gilt; ends worn. A history of the Order of the Golden Fleece, one of the great knightly orders of Europe, founded in 1429 by Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy on the occasion of his marriage to Isabelle of Portugal at Bruges. Originally intended only for deserving Flemish Catholic nobles, or foreign sovereign princes, the character of the order was later adapted when it became the chief knightly order of the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs. Baron Reiffenberg (1795-1850), curator of the Royal Library of Belgium, based his work on archival sources and on an inventory of the order published in 1760 by Count Cobenzl. The volume is here offered with separately bound extracts from Nouvelles Archives Historiques des Pays Bas, pt.IV, pp145-147, 350-368, 387-392, published Brussels, 1832, containing a critique of Reiffenberg's book, a brief bibliography of earlier monographs on the subject, and stories and anecdotes relating to the history of the order. A good copy with wide margins; some insignificant traces of light foxing. Brunet IV, 1197. N° de ref. del artículo 5391

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