HERALDRY:  A SELECTED LIST OF REFERENCES



Humanities and Social Sciences Division

Library of Congress

January 1992



BIBLIOGRAPHIES



Berchem, Egon, _Freiherr_ von.  Heraldische Bibliogrpahie. 

Leipzig, Zentralstelle fur Deutsche  Personen- und

Familiengeschichte, 1937. 432p

Z5311.B4



Colaneri, Giustino.  Bibliografia araldica e genealogica d'Italia. 

Roma, E. Loescher, 1904. xix,  153 p.

Z5313.I8C7



Filby, P. William.  American & British genealogy & heraldry; a

selected list of books.  3d ed. Boston, New England Historic

Genealogical Society, 1983. xix, 736p.

Z5311.F55 1983



-----American & British genealogy & heraldry, 1982-1985 supplement. 

Supplement to 3d ed. Boston, New England Historical Genealogical

Society, 1987. xvii. 230 p.

Z5311.F55 1983 Suppl.



Saffroy, Gaston.  Bibliographie genealogique, heraldique et

nobiliaire de la France des origines a nos jours imprimes et

manuscrits.  Paris, Libraries G. Saffroy, 1968-70. 2 v. illus.,

col. plates

Z5305.F7S22

Contents: t. 1. Generalites:  Nos 1-16008. --t. 2. Provices et

colonies francaises.  Orient latin.  Refugies.  Nos 16009-33963



GLOSSARIES



Brault, Gerard J. Early blazon; heralic terminaoloy in the twelfth

and thirteenth centuries, with special reference to Arthurian

literature.  Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. xxx, 297 p. coats of

arms, facsims., plates.

CR13.B73



Brooke-Little, John P.  An heraldic alphabet.  New and rev. ed.

London, Macdonald and Jane's [1975] 226 p. illus. (part col.),

coats of arms (part col.)

CR13.B76 1975



Franklyn, Julian, and John Tanner.  An encyclopedic dictionary of

heraldry.  Illustrated by Violetta Keeble.  Oxford, New York,

Pergamon Press [1970] 367 p.  illus. (part col.)

CR13.F7 1970



Parker, James.  A glossary of terms used in heraldry.  A new ed.,

with 1000 illus. Rutland, Vt., C.E. Tuttle Co. [1970] xxxii, 659 p.

illus., coats of arms (part col.)

CR1618.P3 1970



Originally published in 1894 and based on Henry Gough's _A Glossary

of Terms Used in British Heraldry_, which was published in 1847.



Puttock, A.G. A dictionary of heraldry and related subjects. 

Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1970. 256p. illus., col. plates.

CR13.P8 1970b

Bibliography:  p. 256.



Stalins, Gaston F. L., _baron_. Vocabulaire-atlas heraldique en six

langues:  francais-English-deutsch-espanol-italiano-Nederlandsch. 

Parish, Societe du grand armorial de France, 1952.  119 p. illus.

CR13.S8



GUIDES



Berchem, Egon, _Freiherr_ von, Donald L. Galbreath, and Otto Hupp. 

Beitrage zur Geschichte der Heraldik. [2., verm. Aufl.] Berlin,

Verlag fur Standesamtswesen [1939]  222 p.  (Schriftenreihe der

Reichsstelle fur Sippenforschung, Bd. 3)

CR1822.B4 1939



Boutell, Charles.  Boutell's heraldry. [Rev. ed.]  Rev. by J.P.

Brooke-Little.  London, New York, F. Warne [1978] 357 p. illus.

(part col.), coats of arms (part col.), col. facisms.

CR21.B7 1978

Bibliography:  p. 292-302.



Child, Heather.  Heraldic design; a handbook for sudents.  With a

foreword by A. Colin Cole.  London, G. Bell [1965] 180 p. illus.,

coats of arms, facsims.

CR31.C5

Bibliograhy:  p. 175-176.



Clark, Hugh.  An introduction to heraldry.  With nearly one

thousand illus. 18th ed. Rev. and corr. by J.R. Planche.

[Wakefield, Eng.] Tabard Press; [Totowa, N.J.] Rowman &

Littlefield, 1974. 279 p. illus. 

CR23.C5 1974

Reprint of the 1866 ed.



Fox-Davies, Arthur C. A complete guide to heraldry. [New ed.] Rev.

and annotated by J.P. Brooke-Little. [London] Nelson [1969] 513 p.

illus., coats of arms (part col.), geneal. tables, plates.

CR21.F73 1969

Bibliography:  P. 486-488



Fox-Davies, Arthur C. Heraldry explained.  Introduced by L.G. Pine. 

Rutland, Vt., C.E. Tuttle Co. [1971] xxi, 126 p. illus., coatsof

arms.

CR23.F7 1971

Reprint of the 1906 ed.



Franklyn, Julian.  Shield and crest; an account of the art and

science of heraldry.  With a foreword by A. C. T. White. 

Illustrated by Norman Manwaring.  3d ed.  Baltimore, Genealogical

Pub. Co., 1971 [c1960] xvi, 521 p. illus.

CR21.F76 1971



Gass, Irene.  A glance at heraldry.  Illustrated by Conrad Bailey. 

London, Harrap [1959] 128p. illus.

CR27.G28



Hope, William H. St. John.  Heraldry for craftsmen & designers. 

New York, Macmillan Co., 1913. 426 p. illus., plates (part col.)

(The Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks)

CR31.H7 1913a



Marks, Richard, _and_ Ann Payne.  British heraldry from its origins

to c. 1800, [London] British Museum Publications [1978] 135 p.

illus.  (part col.)

CR1612.M37

Bibliography: p. 134-135.



Metzig, William.  Heraldry for the designer.  New York, Van

Nostrand Reinhold [1970] 137 p. illus., coats of arms (part col.)

NC825.H4M4



Moncreiffe of that Ilk, _Sir_ Rupert I. K., _Bart_., _and_ Don

Pottinger.  Simple heraldry. [Edinburgh] Nelson [1953] 63 p. illus.

CR492.M6



Morris, Louise E. B. Heraldry and coats of arms in the United

States, by Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris.  [Dallas? Tex.] 1969. 60, [8]

leaves.  illus. coats of arms.

CR1202.M6

Bibliography:  leaves [61]-[68]



Neubecker, Ottfried, _and_ John P. Brooke-Little.  Heraldry:

sources, symbols and meaning.  New York, McGraw-Hill Book.

Co.[1976] 288 p. illus., (part col.), coats of arms (part col.)

CR21.N48



Neubecker, Ottfried.  Wie finde inch ein Familienwappen?  Kleine

Wappenkunde fur jedermann.  Berlin, Falken-Verlag E. Sicker [1956] 

120 p. illus., coats of arms (part col.)  (Falkenbucherei, Bd. 123)

CR23.N45



Philippi, Fredrich.  Wappen; Versuch einer gemeinfasslichen

Wappenlehre. 2., im Text unveranderte Aufl. Hrsg. von Alfred Zappe. 

Limburg/Lahn, C. A. Starke, 1967. 108 p. illus., plates.

CR1822.P47 1967



Pine, Leslie G. International heraldry.  Rutland, Vt., C.E. Tuttle

Co. [1970] 244 p. illus., coats of arms.



Reynolds, Jack A. Heraldry and you; modern heraldic usage in

America.  Edinburgh, New York, Nelson [1961] 176 p., col illus.

CR27.R45

Chapter 6, "Recording Your Arms" (p. 106-110), explains the

necessary relationships between heraldry and genealogy.



Rogers, Hugh C. B. The pageant of heraldry; an explanation of its

principles & its uses today.  With an introd. by H. A. B. Lawson. 

New York, Pitman Pub. Corp. [1957] 205 p. illus.

CR23.R64 1957

Bibliography:  p. 194.



Wappenfibel; Handbuch der Heraldik.  16. verb und erw. Aufl. Hrsg.

vom "Herold" Verein fur Heraldik, Genealogie und verwandte

Wissenschaften.  Begrundelt durch Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt.

Bearb. vom Herolds-Aus-schuss der Deutschen Wappenrolle.  Neustadt

an der Aisch, Degener, 1970. 229 p. illus., coats of arms (part

col.)

CR1822.W3 1970



Woodward, John.  A treatise on heraldry British and foreign, with

English and French glossaries.  New and enl. ed. Edinburgh, W. & A.

K. Johnston, 1896. 2 v. illus., col. coats of arms, plates.

CR21.W8 1896



Zappe, Alfred.  Grundriss der Heraldik.  Limburg/Lahn, C.A. Starke,

1968.  118 p. illus., coats of arms (part col.)

CR1828.Z3



Zieber, Eugene.  Heraldry in America.  2d ed.  New York, Haskell

House Publishers, 1969. 427 p. illus.

CR1202.Z5 1969



COMPENDIA AND INDEXES UNITED STATES



American historical Company, Inc., _New York_. Colonial and

revoluntionary lineages of America; a collection of genealogical

studies, completely documented, and appropriately illustrated,

bearing upon notable early American lines and their collateral

connections.  New York, 1939-68.  25 v. col. coats of arms,

facsims., geneal. tables, plates, ports.

CS61.A5



Includes bibliographies.



Americana. v. 1-37; Jan. 1906-Dec. 1943.  New York, American

Historical Co. 37 v. in 43. illus., col. coats of arms, facisms.,

maps, plates (part col.)

E171.A53

Bimonthly, 1906-May 1909; monthly June 1909-1915; quarterly, 1916-

1943.

Publication suspended during 1917.

Issues for 1906-May 1909 are entitled _American Histoircal

Magazine_.



Bolton, Charles K. Bolton's American armory; a record of cats of

rems which have been in use within the present bounds of the United

States.  Boston, F. W. Faxon Co., 1927. xxiii, 223 p. illus., coats

of arms.  (Useful reference series, no. 33)

CR1209.B6



Crowther, George R.  Surname index to sixty-five volumes of

colonial and revolutionary pedigrees.  Foreword by Milton Rubincam. 

Washington, National Genealogical Society, 1964.  143 p. (Special

publications of the National Genealogical Society, no. 27)

CS42.N43, no. 27

"The surnames listed alphabetically... are those of all the

families to be found in the 27 volumes of _Colonial Families of

America_, 20 volumes of _Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of

America_, and a dozen-and-a-half individual volumes."



Lawrence, Ruth, ed.  Colonial families of America.  New York,

National Americana Society [1928-48] 27 v. col. coats of arms,

plates, ports.

CS61.L3



MacKenzie, George N., ed.  Colonial families of the United States

of America, in which is given the history, genealogy, and armorial

bearing of colonial families who settle in the American Colonies

from the time of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to

the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775.  New York, Grafton

Press, 1907-20. 7 v. coats of arms.

CS61.M2



New England Historic Genealogical Society. _Committee on Heraldry_. 

A roll of arms, registered by the Committee on Heraldry of the New

England Historic Genealogical Society.  Boston, New England

Historic Genealogical Society, 1928-72. 8 v. coats of arms.

Pts. 3-8 published by the Committee on Heraldry.

Pts. 1-2 reprinted from the _New England Historical and

Genealogical Register_, April 1928 and July 1932 issues.



Spofford, Ernest.  Armorial families of America. 1st ser.

Philadelphia, Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., 1929. 402p. col. cots of

arms.

CS69.S6 1929



Valcourt-Vermont, Edgar de.  America heraldica, a compilation of

coats of arms, crests, and mottoes of prominent American families

settled in this country before 1800.  Illustrated by Henry Rykers. 

New York, Brentano Bros. [1886-89] 2 v. in 1. illus., col. plates.

CR1209.V4

Vol. 2 illustrated by Auguste Leroy.



BRITISH ISLES



The Armorial who is who. 1st+ ed.; 1961/62+ Edinburgh. coats of

arms (part col.) biennial.

CR1619.A7

"A register of armorial bearings in current use with the names and

addresses of the bearers and the authority for their use."



Burke, Sir John B.  The general armory of England, Scotland,

Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from

the earliest to the present time.  With a suppl.  London, Harrison,

1884. lxxix, [50], 1185 p. illus., coats of arms.

CR1619.B73 1884

First ed., by John Burke and Sir John B. Burke, was published in

1842 as _A general Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland_. 

Describes but does not illustrate about 60,000 coats of arms.



Elvin, Charles N. A hand-book of mottoes borne by the nobility,

gentry, cities, public companies, & c. With an added index and a

suppl. Translated and illustrated with notes and quotations. 

Baltimore, Genealogical pub. Co., 1971. 294 p.

CR75.G7E5 1971

"Originally published 1860."



Fairbairn, James, comp.  Fairbairn's book of crests of the families

of Great Britain and Ireland.  Being a 4th ed., rev. and enl.

London, T.C.&E.C. Jack [1912] 2 v. plates.

CR57.G7F2 1912

Vol. 1, text; v. 2 plates.



Fox-Davies, Arthur C. Armorial families; a directory of gentlemen

of coat-armour.  7th ed. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1929. 2 v.

(xxxviii, 2191 p.) coats of arms (part col.)

CR1618.F6 1929



Humphery-Smith, Cecil R.  General armory two; Alfred Morant's

additions and corrections to Burke's General armory, edited and

augmented by Cecil R. Humphery-Smith.  Baltimore, Genealogical Pub.

Co., 1974 [c1973] 230 p. illus.

CR1619.H86 1974



Innes, Sir Thomas.  Scots heraldry; a practical handbook on the

historical principles and modern application of the arts and

science. [2d ed., rev. and enl.] Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd [1956]

xxiv, 258 p. illus., coats of arms (part col.), facisms. (part

col.)

CR1652.I5 1956

Bibliographic reference included in "Guide to Further Study of

Scottish Heraldry" (p. 234-238).  Bibliographic footnotes.



MacLysght, Edward.  Irish families; their names, arms, and origins. 

Illustrated by Myra Maguire.  [3d ed., rev.]  New York, Crown

Publishers [1972] 365 p. illus.

CS498.M3 1972

Bibliography:  p. 316-336.

-----More Irish families.  Galway [Ire.] O'Gorman, 1960.  320 p.

col. coats of arms.

CS498.M32

Bibliography:  P285-290.



-----Supplement to Irish families.  Baltimore, Genealogical Book

Co.  [1964] 163 P.

CS498.M33

"Additional notes on names dealt with in [the author's] _Irish

Families and More Irish Families_": p. 157-163.



Papworth, John W. Ordinary of British armorials.  Introductions by

G. D. Squibb [and] A. R. Wagner.  London, Tabard Publications

[1961] xxii, 1125 p.  

CR1619.P2 1961

Reproduced form the original ed. of 1874.



Paul, Sir James B.  An ordinary of arms, contained in the public

register of all arms and bearings in Scotland.  2d ed.  Edinburgh,

W. Green, 1903. xxiv, 428.

CR1658.P3



Roll of Scottish arms.  Edited by Lt. Colonel Gayre of Gayre and

Nigg and Reinold Gayre of Gayre and Nigg the Younger.  Edinburgh,,

The Armorial, 1964 [i.e. 1965]+

CR1659.R6

Contents: pt. 1. v. 1. A-G. --v. 2. H-Z.--



OTHER COUNTRIES



Blanche, Pierre. Dictionaire et armorial des noms de famille de

France.  [Paris] Fayard [1974] xlvi, 249 p. illus.

CR1798.B55



Chassant, Alphonse A. L., and Henri Tausin.  Dictionaire des

devises historiques et heraldiques.  Geneve, Slatkine, 1978.  754,

xiv, 135 p. plates.

CR73.C4 1978

Reprint of the 1878 ed.

----- ----- Supplement, par Henri Tausin.  Geneve, Slatkine, 1978. 

xxxvi, 583, 152p.

Reprint of the 1895 ed.



Crollalanza, Giovanni B. di.  Dizionario storico-blasonico delle

famiglie nobile e notablili italiane estinti e fiorenti.  Pisa,

Presso la direczione del Geornale araldico, 1886-96. 3 v. col.

coats of arms.

CS757.C8



Deutsche Wappenrolle.  Bd. 1+ Hrsg. vom "Herold," Verein Fur

Heraldik, Genealogie und verwandte Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 

Bearb. vom Herods-Ausschum der Deutschen Wappenrolle.  Neustadt an

der Aisch, Degener, 1936+ coats of arms.

CR1821.D4

LC holdings incomplete.



Garcia Carraffa, Alberto, and Arturo Garcia Carraffa.  Enciclopedia

heraldic y genealocia hispano-americana.  [Madrid, Impr. de A.

Marzo, 1919-63] 88 v. illus., col. coats of arms.

CR2142.G3

LC set incomplete



Henning, Eckart.  Nachweise burgerlicher Wappen in Deutschland,

1937-1973.  Neustadt an der Aisch, Degener, 1975.  132 p.

(Genealogische Informationen, Bd. 2)

CR1834.H45



Jager-Sunstenau, Hanns.  General-Index zu den Siebmacher'schen

Wappenbchern, 1605-1961.  Graz, Akademische Druck- u.

Verlagsanstalt, 1964.  47*, 586 p.

Cr1179.S5J3

"Abkurzungszeichen";  [2] p. inserted.

Introduction includes bibliogrpahic history.

----- ----- Nachtrag.  Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt,

1969.  xxiii p.

CR1179.S5J3 Suppl.



Jougla de Morenas, Henri, ed.  Grand armorial de France; catalogue

general des armoiries des familles nobles de France, comprenant les

blasons des familles ayant possede dis charges dans le royaume et

de cellesayant fait enregisterer leurs armoiries en 1696, de la

noblesse de l'empire, des anoblissements de la restauration,

donnant les tableaux genealogiques de familles comfirmees dans leur

noblesse entree 1660 et 1830.  [Paris] Editions heraldiques, 1934-

49. 6 v. coats of arms (part col.), geneal. tables

CR1801.J6

Vols. 2, 4-6 published by Societe du Grand armorial de France.



Kenfenheuer, Johann J.  Alphabetisches Namen register burgerlicher

deutscher Wappenvorkommen.  Hoffnungsthal, E. Pilgram, 1937. 264 p.

CR1829.K45

"Abkurzungs- und Quellen-Verzeichnis":  p. 11-24.



Lukomskii, Vladislav K., and Sergei N. Troinitskii.  Ukazateli k

Vysochaishe utverzhdennym Obshchemu Gerbovniku dvorianskikh rodov

Tsarstva Pol'skago.  Sanktpeterburg, 1910.  151 p.

CR2039.L8

Indexes the general armorial of the noble families of the Russian

Empire and Niesiecki's Polish armorial.



Neubecker, Ottfried, and Wilhelm Rentzmann.  wappen-Bilder-Lexikon. 

Dictionnaire heraldique.  Encyclopaedia of heraldry.  Munchen,

Battenberg [1974] 418 p. (chiefly illus.)

Based in part on Rentzmann's _Numismatisches Wappen-Lexicon des

Mittelalters und der Neuzeit_ (Berlin, H. Veit, 1876).

A guide to the identification of coats of arms, arranged by the

type of object displayed.



Niesiecki, Kaspar.  Herbarz polski.  W Lipsku, Breitkopf i Haertel,

1839-46. 10v. illus.

CS874.N6



Pama, C. Heraldry of South African families: coats of

arms/crests/ancestry.  Capetown, A. A. Balkema, 1972. 365 p. coats

of arms.

CR2790.P28

Bibliography:  p. 345-358



Piferrer, Francisco.  Nobiliario de los reinos y senorios de

Espana.  Contiene las armas y blasonnes de los reinos, provincias,

ciudades, villas y principales pueblos de Espana. 2. ed.  Madrid,

1857-60. 6 v. col. coats of arms.

CS947.P5 1857

----- Archivo heraldico.  Armas, timbres y blasones de nuestra

ilustre nobleza espanola:  apendice a todos los nobiliarios

espanoles, antiguos blez espanola:  apendice a todo los nobiliarios

espanoles, antiguos y modernos.  madrid, 1863-66. 2 v. in 1. col.

coats of arms.

CS947.P5 1857 App.



Renesse, Theodore de, comte.  Dictionaire dis figures heraldiques. 

Bruxelles, O. Schepens, 1894-1903. 7 v. coats of arms.

CR13.R4

Based on the descriptions of the armorial bearings in Rietstap's

_Armorial general_.



Rietstap, Johannes B.  Armorial general, precede de'un dictionnaire

des termes du blason.  2. ed., refondue et augm.  Gouda, G. B. van

Goor zonen [1884]-87. 2 v. plates.

CR1179.R52

Contents: v. 1. A-K. --v. 2. L-Z.  Supplement. Appendice.

----- ----- Supplement par V. H. [i.e. Victor et Henri] Rolland. 

La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1926-54.  7 v. illus., coats of arms, fold.,

geneal. tables, ports.

CR1179.R52 Suppl.

Vol. 1-2 issued in parts, 1904-26.

----- ----- ----- Table du supplement, par Henri Rolland.  Lyon,

Societe de sauvegarde historique, 1951. 1 v. (unpaged)

CR1179.R52 Suppl. Index



Rolland, Victor, and Henri Rolland.  General illustrated armorial.

[3d ed.]  Lyon, Sauvegarde historique [1953?] 6 v. in 4. illus.,

coats of arms.

CR1179.R653 1953

Translation of _Armoiries des familles contenues dans l'Armorial

general de J. B. Rietstap_ originally published 1903-26.

Illustrates the coats of arms described in Rietstap's _Armorial

general_.



Russia. _Department gerol'dii_.  Obshchii Gerbovnik dvorianskikh

rodov Vserossiiskiia Imperii, nachatyi v 1797m godu [S.-Peterburg,

1798]- 1862. 11v. coatso f arms, geneal. tables.

CR2039.A53

Of the 18 manuscript volumes, the first 10 were published in 1798-

1836.  The part of v. 1 that was printed consists of the title

page, dated 1862, and 30 color plates (coats of arms), some with

explanatory text.  No more published.

Vo. 11 in LC set incomplete; three plates wanting.

----- ----- Alfavitnyi spisok familiiam. [S. Peterbug, 1840?]  16

leaves.

CR2039.A532



Scorza, Angelo M. G. Enciclopedia araldica italiana.  Genova,

Studio ricerche storiche [1955]+ coats of arms (part col.), geneal.

tables.

CR572.S35

Issued in parts.



Sibmacher, Johann.  Grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch, in ieiner

neuen, vollstandig geordneten und reich vermehrten Aufl., mit

heraldischen und historisch-genealogischen Erlauterungen. 

Nurnburg, Bauer und Raspe [1854]-1961. 7. in 101. illus., plates.

CR1179. S5

Issued in parts.

LC set incomlete.

First published in 1605 as _New Wapenbuch_.

The volumes of this edition are being reprinted, in a different

arrangement, by Bauer und Raspe in Neustadt an der Aisch

(CR1179.S52).



Spreti, Vittorio, _marchese_. Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare

italiana.  Familglie nobili e titolate viventi riconosciute dal R.

o governo d'Italia compresi:  citta, comunita, mense vescovili,

abazie, parrocchie ed enti nobili e titolati riconosciuti. 

Minlano, 1928-35. 8 v. illus., col. coats of arms, ports.

CS757.S7



Tretiakoff, Igorr V. de. Armorial de la noblesse de Russie, avec

notices genealogiques et biblographiques.  [Paris] Richard-Masse

[1946] xxvii, 253 p. coatsof arms, fold. geneal. table.

CR2041.T7

At head of title:  La Societe russe d'historie et de genealogie en

Belgique.



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