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119. O'GILVY (Gabriel). Nobiliaire de Guienne et de Gascogne - Lot 119
119. O'GILVY (Gabriel). Nobiliaire de Guienne et de Gascogne. Review of the families of ancient chivalry or ennobled of these provinces, prior to 1789, with their genealogies and their arms, followed by a heraldic treatise in the form of a dictionary. Bordeaux, G. Gounouilhou, 1856 for the first volume, Paris, Dumoulin, 1858 for the second volume. BOURROUSSE DE LAFFORE (Pierre-Jules de). Nobiliaire de Guienne et de Gascogne. Revue des familles d'ancienne chevalerie ou anoblies de ces provinces, antérieures à 1789, avec leurs généalogies et armes. Paris, Dumoulin, 1860 for the third volume and Paris, Champion ; Bordeaux, Féret ; Agen, chez l'auteur, 1883 for the fourth volume. 4 vol. in-4 in posterior binding (XXth) half red basane, spine with gold title and tomaison, cover cons. Ex-libris pasted on the back covers. Frontispiece, viii, 483 p., 5 plates of coats of arms in gold and silver color / Frontispiece, 480 p., 6 plates of coats of arms in gold and silver color / 626 p., 2 plates of coats of arms in gold and silver color, 2 plates of coats of arms in black, / lxxvi, 479 p., 3 facsimile of letters in sepia, 4 large folding genealogical tables.
First edition for each of the volumes, rare and complete with its four parts and its iconography: two beautiful frontispieces and 189 coats of arms in chromolithography, a large number of coats of arms in black on plates or engraved in the text, facsimile letters and genealogical tables. Andrieu tells us in his bibliography of the Agenais: "this work of O'Gilvy whose importance does not need to be noted, where one sometimes notices complacent errors was much more conscientiously and seriously continued by Mr. Jules de Bourrousse de Laffore who published volumes 3 and 4. However, these last two volumes are rare, having been put in the pillar some time after their publication. This indispensable tool for the genealogist or historian interested in the nobility of France benefits from a good binding and fresh paper and this titanic work has no equivalent. "It is the only one that gives, in a homogeneous form, the genealogies of subsisting or extinct houses or families of southwestern France." (Saffroy, 23798; Andrieu, II, 27, 168; Labadie, 2891).
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