The Genealogy of the House Thurn & Taxis

Monumental work on the genealogy of the princely house Thurn & Taxis with hundreds of coats of arms in three volumes. "GENEALOGY DE LA TRÈS-ILLUSTRE, TRÈS-ANCIENNE ET AUTREFOIS SOUVERAINE MAISON DE LA TOUR ...", Engelbert Flaccio, genealogist and herald of the province of Luxembourg, printed in Brussels by Antoine Claudinot, 1709. Comprehensive work on genealogy in the first edition. Empire with hundreds of coats of arms, it provides a comprehensive overview of the most diverse lines of the nobility house and can be counted in general because of the abundance of the coat of arms to the coat of arms books. 3 double-sided copper plates, 2 full-page copper plates, 1 double-sheet copper plate, 79 full-page wafers with numerous coats of arms, 48 ​​double-leaf wallets with numerous coats of arms , 1 multiply folded coat of arms with numerous coats of arms, 100 engraved vignettes and 3 engraved initials. Several hundred coats of arms in total. The engravers are Richard Collin, Jan van Orley, Franciscus de Cock, Cornelis Vermeulen and Erasmus Quellinus. One column print, sheet size: 48 x 31.5 cm. Three complete volumes; 5 nn. Sheet, incl. Title and preface, 284 num. Pages, 4 nn. Leaf index; 1 nn. Sheet title, 385 num. Pages, 1 nn. Leaf table index; 1 nn. Sheet title, 287 num. Pages; 169 num. Pages (pages 147-157 double page), 1 nn. Sheet, 28 num. Pages (pages 19-22 double page), 4 nn. Leaf table, 1 white leaf. In very good condition. Three monumental leathers with rich back gilding. Approx. 20 kg! The copy comes from the library of August Eugen Bernard, Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (1706-1767), whose owner's note is in the beginning in the volumes.