A compilation of two works on the French nobility. - Lot 388

A compilation of two works on the French nobility. 1/ - La Roque, Louis de - Barthélemy, Édouard de. - Catalog of Gentlemen in 1789 and of Families Ennobled or Granted Titles from the First Empire to the Present Day, 1806–1866. Facsimile of the 1866 edition published in Mayenne by Joseph Floch in 1981. 2 in-8 volumes, paperback with padded soft covers—[4 ff.], XIV (preface), 48 (Alsace, Corsica, Comtat-Venaissin), 32 (Anjou, Saumur), 21 (Armagnac, Quercy), 52 (Artois, Flanders, Hainaut), 35 (Auvergne, Rouergue), 48 (Béarn, Navarre, Gascony), 35 (Bourbonnais, Nivernais), 48 (Burgundy, Bresse, Bugey, Valromey), 63 (Brittany), 68 (Champagne), 24 (Dauphiné), 38 (Franche-Comté), 56 (Guienne, Agénois, Bazadois), 128 (Isle-de-France, Soissonnais, Valois, Vermandois), 56 (Montpellier), 40 pp. (Toulouse), VII pp. (table of contents); [4 ff.], 48, 48 (Lorraine, Duchy of Bar), 31 (Lyonnais, Forez, and Beaujolais), 36 (Maine, Perche, Thimerais), 38 (Marche, Limousin), 124 (Normandy), 55 (Orléanais, Blaisois, Beauce, Vendomois), 54 (Périgord, Aunis, Saintonge, Angoumois), 47 (Picardy), 52 (Poitou), 32 (Provence, Orange), 36 (Roussillon, Foix, Comminges, Couseran), 32 (Touraine, Berry), 87 pp. (Colonies), 47 (supplement, table of contents). 2/ - Louis-Charles Waroquier de Méricourt. - State of the Nobility, Year MDCCLXXXII... [followed by] Armorial of the Principal Houses of France and Abroad, and of Several Cities of the Kingdom; with a summary of the various degrees of elevation of most of the ancient houses: enriched with nearly four hundred intaglio engravings, to aid in the understanding of the different coats of arms, all intended to serve as a supplement to the collection of New Year’s Gifts to the Nobility, from 1771 to the present. By a society of men of letters and genealogists. Paris, published by Le Boucher, Onfroy, Lamy, M. DCC. LXXXII. 3 volumes in-16 (out of 5; the volumes of plates, T 4 and 5, are missing) – bindings worn, particularly on volumes 2 and 3.