Heraldry and genealogy, including the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Dubuisson, Pierre Paul. Armorial des principales maisons et familles du royaume, particulierement de celles de Paris et de l'Isle de France. Paris: Guerin, Durand & Le Gras, 1757, 2 volumes, 12mo, additional engraved title-page, 102+84 leaves of engraved plates (mostly double-sided) of coats-of-arms, contemporary speckled calf, gilt arms on covers, spine gilt in compartments, red edges, extremities slightly rubbed
Behr, Kamill von. Genealogie der in Europa regierenden Fürstenhauser... Zweite... auflage. Leipzig: Tachnitz, 1870; Supplement zur zweiten Auflage. Ibid., 1890; Wappenbuch zu der zweiten Auflage. Ibid., 1872, plate; together 3 volumes, 4to, original purple cloth lettered in gilt on upper covers, with a letter dated 23 February 1949 to Elie, Prince of Parma from Count Zeininger, and a draft reply in pencil, regarding an article in the Rivista Araldica "Les armoires des Bourbons de Parme", the offprint of which is also present
Sainte-Marthe, Scévole and Louis de. Histoire genealogique de la maison de France, reveue et augmentee en cette troisieme edition. Tome premier. Paris: Sebastien & Gabriel Cramoisy, 1647, folio, engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum, without volume 2, lacking quires 6D-6I^{4 (pp.945-992), first quire misbound, binding slightly soiled, extremities rubbed}



with 9 others, including 5 volumes issued by the Order of the Golden Fleece, together 15 volumes

Robert I, duke of Parma, armorial bookplates in some volumes

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Elie, Prince of Parma, was a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Liste nominale des chevaliers de l'ordre illustre de la Toison d'or. [No place]: la Chancellerie de l'Ordre, 1904, folio, red cloth gilt
Liste nominale des chevaliers de l'ordre illustre de la Toison d'or. [No place]: la Chancellerie de l'Ordre, 1955, folio, red cloth gilt, card slipcase, with a pamphlet headed "Zeremoniell" loosely inserted
Regelbuch für die Ritter des Ordens vom goldenen Vliess. Vienna: Ordenskanzlei, 1952, 8vo, burgundy cloth gilt
Anweisungen für die Offiziere des Ordens vom goldenen Vliess zur Ausubung ihres Amtes. Vienna: Ordenskanzlei, 1953, 8vo, blue cloth gilt
Pius X, Pope. Breve des Papstes Pius X vom 10 Februar 1913 wegen erteilung des Privilegiums des Altare portatile an die Ordensritter. Vienna: la Chancellerie de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or, 1913, 4to, text in Latin and German, loose as issued, in envelope addressed to Elie Prince of Parma

Les genealogiques historiques des rois, empereurs, &c... Tome premier contenant les généalogies des patriarches, rois, heros de l'antiquité, & empereurs depuis Jule-Cesar; Tome II, contenant les maisons souverains d'Italie, avec les families papales; Paris: Pierre-François Giffart, 1736, 2 volumes; [Tome III] Généalogie historique de la Maison Royale de France. [Tome IV] Les généalogies historiques des rois, ducs, comtes, &c. de Bourgogne. Paris: Theodore Le Gras etc., 1738, 2 volumes; together 4 volumes, 4to, woodcuts and folding letterpress tables, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, red or blue edges, bindings rubbed