Vindex Neapolitanae Nobilitatis Caroli Borrelli Cleric Regul. Minor. Animadversio in Francisci Aelii Marchesii Librum de Neapolitanis Familiis

Neapoli [Naples]: Apud Aegidium Longum Typographum Regium, 1653. Very Good. Neapoli [Naples]: Apud Aegidium Longum Typographum Regium, 1653. First Edition. Quarto (20cm.); full contemporary mottled roan, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges marbled; [20],208,186,[18]pp. (collated complete); woodcut illus. throughout, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces. Leather dried at margins with scuffed exposure at corners, small chip at spine crown, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Provenance: 19th-century library shelf label of Kimbolton Castle to front pastedown, neat but extensive contemporary manuscript annotations throughout.

Uncommon heraldic guide to 17th-century Neapolitan gentry.