![CHIFFLET, JULES. Les marques d'honneur de la maison de Tassis. Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus, 1645. Engraved title, 8 (of 9) engraved plates (including one double-page, 2 folding engraved) and 25 engraved heraldic illustrations, most after Nicolaes van der Horst, one after Wenceslaus Hollar, by Paul Pontius, Cornelius Galle, and others. Folio, contemporary vellum, some wear, covers bowing and detaching from paste-downs. FIRST EDITION of a richly illustrated history of the family of Thurn und Taxis. Funck 291; Hollstein 9: Van der Horst, 50-53, 56, 62-63 [With]: TAXIS, JOHANN BAPTIST. Translaet van sekeren Spaenschen Brief, gheschreven by Johan Baptista de Tassis... Gravenhagen: Heyndricksz, 1596. 4to, old wrappers. (2)](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/NYE/1999_NYE_08227_0053_000(123815).jpg?w=1)
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CHIFFLET, JULES. Les marques d'honneur de la maison de Tassis. Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus, 1645. Engraved title, 8 (of 9) engraved plates (including one double-page, 2 folding engraved) and 25 engraved heraldic illustrations, most after Nicolaes van der Horst, one after Wenceslaus Hollar, by Paul Pontius, Cornelius Galle, and others. Folio, contemporary vellum, some wear, covers bowing and detaching from paste-downs. FIRST EDITION of a richly illustrated history of the family of Thurn und Taxis. Funck 291; Hollstein 9: Van der Horst, 50-53, 56, 62-63 [With]: TAXIS, JOHANN BAPTIST. Translaet van sekeren Spaenschen Brief, gheschreven by Johan Baptista de Tassis... Gravenhagen: Heyndricksz, 1596. 4to, old wrappers. (2)