Lot 191: Nisbet, Alexander

Nisbet, Alexander
A system of heraldry speculative and practical with the true art of blazon. Edinburgh: J. MackEuen, 1722 [volume 2 by R. Fleming, 1742]. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, title-pages in red and black, 45 engraved armorial plates, modern half calf, cloth boards, endpapers renewed, some marginal annotations in a contemporary hand, tears to the margins of p. 140 in volume 1 and p. 219 in volume 2, neither with loss of text.

Note: Moule 464. The second volume, issued in 1742 by the Edinburgh printer R. Fleming, contains only mutilated extracts from Nisbets manuscripts. According to Professor Walker (Legal history of Scotland, volume 5, p. 27) it is still an authoritative work.