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[HERALDRY]. GINANNI, Marc Antonio (1690-1770). L’Arte del Blasone Dichiarata per Alfabeto. Con Le Figure Necessarie Per La Intelligenza De Termini In Molte Tavole Impresse In Rame. Venice: Presso Guglielmo Zerletti, 1756. Folio. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 35 copper engraved plates being coats of arms of Italian Nobles numbered I-XXXV; plus numerous engraved tail pieces (frontispiece depicting a tournament for Knights in full armor engraved by Pietro Monaco on a design by Andrea Barbiani). [xii], 392 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Approximately 13 x 10”. Bound in contemporary mottled brown wrappers with later red silk ties (wrappers somewhat worn, browned, minor occasional thumbsoiling in text, text a bit wrinkled, though still quite clean). Fine. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. A Valuable heraldic treatise, richly illustrated, provided with a French-Italian-Latin alphabetical dictionary at the end and considered for decades of fundamental importance for learning the research methodology of noble coats of arms. This Specimen has wide margins. The 35 full-page single sided plates show 881 coats of arms of Italian noble families. Two printed tickets to an early religious service in Venice laid-in. “A rare and very useful work to find, given the simple coat of arms, the name of the family to which it belongs” (Classic work of its kind, Graesse, III, 85) It is and remains of almost unique importance for all those who wish to study the coats of arms of Italy (Choice, 738). Graesse III, p.85. Brunet II, 1602.