Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ: An Analytical Catalogue of Books on Genealogy, Heraldry, Nobility, Knighthood, & Ceremonies: with a List of Provincial Visitations, Pedigrees, Collections of Arms, and Other Manuscripts; and a Supplement, Enumerating the Principal Foreign Genealogical Works |
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... view , and by that means to unfold the vast extent of research that has been devoted to the study , affording also an opportunity of selecting those works , where it has been treated in the most perspicuous manner . This profitable ...
... view , and by that means to unfold the vast extent of research that has been devoted to the study , affording also an opportunity of selecting those works , where it has been treated in the most perspicuous manner . This profitable ...
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... view of Windsor Castle ; between all the others , a prospect of the country , & c . At the end is a Latin dedication to the Queen , with the signa- ture " Th . Daws . 1578. " This set of engravings is extremely scarce , but was in the ...
... view of Windsor Castle ; between all the others , a prospect of the country , & c . At the end is a Latin dedication to the Queen , with the signa- ture " Th . Daws . 1578. " This set of engravings is extremely scarce , but was in the ...
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... view of the origin and progress of military institutions and ceremonies . Great judgment is shown by the author , in the arrangement of his subjects , and his style is generally less quaint and affected than that of his contemporaries ...
... view of the origin and progress of military institutions and ceremonies . Great judgment is shown by the author , in the arrangement of his subjects , and his style is generally less quaint and affected than that of his contemporaries ...
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... view of " The Procession of King Edward VI . from the Tower of London to Westminster , from an ancient painting at Cowdray , " since destroyed , has been published by the Society of Antiquaries , London . He also reminds the reader ...
... view of " The Procession of King Edward VI . from the Tower of London to Westminster , from an ancient painting at Cowdray , " since destroyed , has been published by the Society of Antiquaries , London . He also reminds the reader ...
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... view of the subject . The wood - cuts of shields , explanatory of his theory , are numerous and spirited . In the last section , where Marshalling is treated of , are several the whole size of the page , shewing the full achievement of ...
... view of the subject . The wood - cuts of shields , explanatory of his theory , are numerous and spirited . In the last section , where Marshalling is treated of , are several the whole size of the page , shewing the full achievement of ...
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