MENESTRIER Claude-François : — Origine des Armoiries.

6. Paris, pour Thomas Amaulry, Libraire à Lyon , & se vend , Chez René Guignard, ruë S. Jacques , à S.Basile, 1679, in-12°, 14,5 cm, frontispiece portrait + (32) nn pp (title with engraved vignette) + 552 pp + 8 engraved heraldic plates. Bound in contemporary full leather, red spickled edges, gilt decorated spine. Some wear at extremeties, spine seriously worn with loss of gilt decoration. Inside clean. C.F. Menestrier ( Lyon 1631 - Paris 1705) was a French jesuit and is considered to be the most important heraldic authority of his age..