- Lot 479

[LIÈGE - ARCHIVES] Lot of various archives: family papers, genealogical documentation, etc. - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine HELLIN - Hoc liber utitur Joannes Baptista Antonius Hellin Leodius grammaticus 1785. Liege, 1785-1787. In-8° : [39]-138 ff, pen and ink on laid paper. Title slightly soiled, otherwise fresh inside. Contemporary brown basane decorated with cold fillets, four leather cords, spine with nerfs not very apparent. Rubbed, leather missing from spine, 2 cords missing, 1st quire partially unbound. Voluminous collection of texts in Latin with French translation opposite: dialogues of Cicero, fables, models of letters (of recommendation, of consolation, etc.) taken from Cicero, accounts of the Punic wars, etc. - File containing drafts and contemporary manuscript copies of documents concerning the Hellin family under the French regime: petitions, various letters, memoirs, etc. Interests include the commune of Saint-Nicolas-en-Glain, the Amercoeur coal mine, epizootic diseases, etc. In ff. under cardboard folder of the time. - Manuscript collection in French of regulations and ordinances relating to rural life: hunting, country wardens, game wardens, water and forests, etc. Early 19th c. In-12. On the left-hand pages are copies of the regulatory texts (from the 17th to the 19th century), on the right-hand pages are addenda and comments by another hand. - +/- 35 handwritten heraldic and genealogical documents, 18th-19th c., including: armorial of the abbots of Saint-Gilles de Liège (pen and grey wash), tables, tombstone survey (+ 1 old photo), 1 drawing of coat of arms (by Raick) enhanced with watercolor and silver. Some very faded, torn or fragmentary. ATTACHED: - "Continuation of the Recueil Héraldique." Incomplete handwritten copy. Numerous coats of arms drawn in pen. - 3 works in-foors, in ff. not collated (+/- faded) : -1 [LE CELLIER, Claude] - Le grand armorial universel. Paris, H. Jailliot, [1670]. Fully engraved. -2. Les fastes de l'empire d'Occident, ou Tableau des principaux événemens arrivés en Allemagne [...]. Vienne, Libraires associés, 1788. Compendium illustrated with numerous portraits of sovereigns. -3. LEENE, Joseph vanden - List of titles of nobility [...]. Brussels, G. Fricx, 1734.