Sevilla Pedro Brun e Juan Gentil 1492.

In 4.º 28x20 cm. Com 96 fólios sem numerar.

Encadernação ao gosto da época inteira de pele com ferros a seco nas pastas, executada no inicio do século xx.

Magnifico incunábulo impresso no ano da chegada de Colombo à América. Adornado com belas capitulares e 64 gravuras xilográficas no texto representado brasões, escudos de armas, cotas de armas ou armaduras, insígnias e estandartes. Obra impressa a duas colunas em caracteres góticos com 49 na frente e 48 no verso sendo 2 fólios impressos a vermelho e negro.

Trata-se do primeiro livro sobre genealogia, heráldica e nobiliarquia impresso na Península Ibérica, um dos primeiros impressos em Sevilha. Palau V, 170. Brunet III, 1688. Deschamps 632. Não referido por Salvá.

 Binding: first half of 20th century full calf bound, blind tooled at covers replicating contemporary style. Illustrated with 64 woodcuts in text with beautiful engravings showing crests, coats-of-arms, badges and banners. Work printed in two columns (in Gothic characters) 49 in front and 48 on the back, and also 2 folios printed in red and black.

Superb incunabulum printed in the year of Columbus' arrival to America. This is the first book on genealogy, heraldry and nobility printed on the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the first books printed in Seville.

Maggs Bros, Biblitheca Incunabulorum, 383. «This much-praised work on Spanish heraldry was composed, according to the author, between 1477 and 1485, Ticknor describes it as “a book, written with Castilian dignity of style, and full of the feudal spirit of an age that believed in the inherent qualities of noble blood. (the B. M. copy is imperfect.).»