HERALDRY - CITY OF PARIS. - Lot 35

HERALDRY - CITY OF PARIS. CHEVILLARD (Jacques). Governors, captains, lieutenant generals, provosts of the merchants, aldermen, royal prosecutors, clerks, collectors, councilors, and quartermasters of the City of Paris. No place, no date (circa 1734). Folio, marbled sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine (pastiche binding). Handwritten annotation on the endpaper. (8) leaves (general title and calligraphic section headings), 4 double plates of coats of arms, enhanced with color; 86 folios of coats of arms in color [original folio numbering 1–86; folios 33–39 and 64–71 are blank (probably intended for future additions)]; (11) folios (table of contents). HERALDIC COLLECTION OF THE OFFICIALS OF THE CITY OF PARIS. The coats of arms, engraved with a burin and initially printed on large sheets (maps), were cut out, finely colored, and assembled into five distinct sections: - Names, Titles, and Coats of Arms of the Governors, Captains, and Lieutenant Generals of the City, Provostship, and Viscounty of Paris. Paris, Published by the Author, 1731 [4 double-page plates engraved with a burin]; - Provosts of the Merchants and Aldermen of the City of Paris, n.d. [calligraphic title and 35 folios, including full-page coats of arms of the King]; - King’s Prosecutors, Clerks, and Collectors of the City of Paris. Paris: Published by the Author, n.d. [calligraphic title and 2 plates]; - Councilors of the City of Paris [handwritten title page and 22 plates]; - Quartiniers of the City of Paris [handwritten title page and 15 plates]; - Handwritten alphabetical index [11 ff.]. The chronology of the provosts of the merchants ends in the year 1734 with Jean-Baptiste de Santeuil, the latest date appearing in the work. A few copies of a similar composition can be found, sometimes bound in morocco leather. One of them, like this one, has a “Catalogue of Coat-of-Arms Cards of the Chevillard Lords, Father and Son” pasted onto the front endpaper. A VERY BEAUTIFUL ARMORIAL, FULLY REPAINTED, UNKNOWN TO SAFFROY IN THIS FORM. From the library of the Marquis de Reynaud de Monts, Knight of Malta from 1746 to 1753, with his bookplate on a piece of calfskin (OHR pl. 1786, variant). Bookplate: Le Féron d’Eterpigny (19th century)