Introductio ad Latinam blasoniam. An essay to a more correct blason in Latine than formerly hath been used. Collected out of approved modern authors, and describing the arms of all the kingdoms of Europe, and of many of the greatest princes and potentates thereof: together with many other illustrious and ancient houses both of England and other countries. No work of this nature extant in our English tongue, nor (absit gloriari) of its method and circumstances in any foreign language whatsoever. Authore Johanne Gibbono armorum servulo, quem `a Mantelio dicunt Caeruleo

People / Organizations

• John Gibbon (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by J. M[acock]. for the author, and are to be sold by J. Crump at the Three Bibles in S. Pauls Church-yard; by B. Billingsley at the Printing-press in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange; and by A. Churchill at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary Lane, 1682.

Added name

Macock, John, printer.; Crump, John, active 1673-1682, bookseller.; Billingsley, Benjamin, bookseller.; Churchill, Awnsham, -1728, bookseller.

Publication year

1682

ESTC No.

R2878

Grub Street ID

111818

Description

[16], 165, [3] p. : ill. ; 8°.

Note

In English and Latin

With initial imprimatur leaf

Includes index

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