La vraye et parfaite science des armoiries (Dijon, 1660) PALLIOT, Pierre.- LA VRAYE | ET | PARFAITE SCIENCE | DES ARMOIRIES, | OV | L’INDICE ARMORIAL | DE FEV MAISTRE | LOVVAN GELIOT, ADVOCAT | AV PARLEMENT DE BOVRGOGNE. | APPRENANT, ET EXPLIQVANT SOMMAIRE- | ment les Mots & Figures dont on se sert au Blason des | Armoiries, & l’origine d’icelles. | AVGMENTÉ DE NOMBRE DE TERMES, | & enrichy de grande multitude d’exemples des Armes des familles | [...] | Par PIRRE PALLIOT, Parisien, Imprimeur du Roy...- A Dijon: Chez ledit Pierre Palliot, 1660.- [32], 678, [51, 1 br. p.: il.; 35 cm.- E. Pierre Palliot (1608-1698), genealogist, heraldist, engraver and printer, born in Paris, with extensive work produced, especially on his favorite themes. Original edition of one of the most famous heraldry treatises published in France between the 16th and 18th centuries, closely following Geliot's little manual published in 1635. Profusely copperplate illustrated (engraving and etching) with hundreds of examples of coat of arms and other elements, namely supports, coronets, enamels, partitions, figures, crests, etc. In reality, only two double-page prints, located between pages 32 and 33, were printed separately. All the rest are integrated in the text (they are part of the sections) and were gauffered by successive printing, including the title and the allegorical engraving on the back of the typographic title page. The work was redited in facsimile, by Rouveyre, in Paris, in 1895. Complete copy, with slight browning, covered with excellent 19th century French binding, full tobacco Moroccan, signed Belz-Niedrée (Philippe Belz, bookbinder with workshop in Paris active around 1860-70); covers decorated with semée of fleur de lis (with central reserves), closed panels on the spine, filets of coupe and rolls on the squares; marbled paper endpapers and impeccably gilt edges. Brunet, II, col. 1519 (referring to Louvan Geliot as the author). Gaston Saffroy (Bibliographie généalogique, héraldique et nobiliaire de la France ...), 2229.