STAND 20

In 4.º   Binding: first half of 20th century full calf bound, tooled blind at covers replicating contemporary style. Superb incunabulum printed in the year of Columbus' arrival to America. Illustrated with 64 woodcuts in text with beautiful engravings showing crests, coats-of-arms, badges and banners. Work printed in two columns (in Gothic characters) 49 in front and 48 on the back, and also 2 folios printed in red and black. This is the first book on genealogy, heraldry and nobility printed on the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the first books printed in Seville. Palau V, 170. Brunet III, 1688. Deschamps 632. Not in Salvá. Maggs Bros, Biblitheca Incunabulorum, 383. «This much-praised work on Spanish heraldry was composed, according to the author, between 1477 and 1485, Ticknor describes it as “a book, written with Castilian dignity of style, and full of the feudal spirit of an age that believed in the inherent qualities of noble blood. (the B. M. copy is imperfect.)”.