Price new from used from hardcover, january 1, 1697 please retry. There are over 1,200 free coats of arms posted here and this number will be rising weekly. This is the most authoritative work on the coatsofarms of the world. The descriptions of the arms cover those of more than 100,000 families, alphabetically arranged and accurately described. Free coat of arms and family crest search for your family history and last name. This site is soon to be the best resource for free coats of arms on the internet. The armorial general is the most authoritative work on the coatsofarms in the world. Clerk and stenographer in the second chamber, jeanbaptiste rietstap. General armorial of europe by rietstap heraldry coats of arms. There are 120,000 or so european names listed 120,000 european coats of arms.
Armorial general by johannes baptist rietstap, 1884, g. Monsieur v rolland, and afterwards his son monsieur h v rolland, completed this monumental work over a period of 23 years, in which 85,000 shields of arms illustrate every. Needless to say the volumes are in french, but the i. Riestaps armorial general is a huge collection of family crests gathered from numerous smaller armorials and all put in one multi volume armorial. As well as fully searchable versions of parkers heraldry and the book of public arms i have added an early version of my own translation of j.
Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Rietstap expressed the wish that illustrations to his great work armorial general could be produced, but he was of the opinion that the labour involved would be too great. In the future, it is our intention to add all the pages of rietstaps armorial general. General illustrated armorial, unknown binding january 1, 1953 by j. France, belgium, switzerland, germany, holland, spain, england, italy.
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Rietstaps armorial general pages from rietstaps armorial general. Jeanbaptiste rietstap is a dutch genealogist and heraldist, born in rotterdam may 12, 1828 and died in the hague october 30, 1891. Rietstaps armorial general is a monumental work, containing descriptions, or blazons, of the coatsofarms of over,000 european families, alphabetically arranged and accurately described. Les erreurs contenues dans les armoriaux ne sont pas corrigees, le site nayant pas vocation a valider ou rectifier les noms ou les armes armoiries. Johannes baptista rietstap 12 may 182824 december 1891 was a dutch heraldist and genealogist. Rietstap, heraldic authority, who compiled a complete registry of all names and arms recorded and granted to them, from the earliest to the present time from the colleges of arms, on the continent, and some on the british isles.
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