Description: uit oude en echte Bescheiden en Aanteekeningen, en met bijvoeging van de Wapens der onderscheidene Geslachten, [..]. Deel 1-2. Te Leeuwarden, bij D. Meindersma Wz., 1846. 3 Parts in 2 Vols.: [2],III,[1 blank],XII,416,8,[3 index] and [2],292,14,3,2,[1 blank],68 pp. With 2 lithogr. titles, 42 numb. lithogr. plates (dep. 252 coats-of-arms, all in a fine contemp. handcolouring & partly heightened with GOLD) printed by C. Brantsma & 2 fold. letterpress tables. Folio, 19th-cent. unif. half-calf with gilt(-lettered) spine. (2x) ? Eekhoff p. 98. De Buck 274. Rare complete set of the first & only edition of a 19th-cent. genealogical work concerning Frisian noble families by the Dutch lawyers Montanus de Haan Hettema (1796-1873) and Arent van Halmael (1788-1850) printed on handmade paper in 125 copies (according to Eekhoff). Both vols. partly interleaved (vol. 1 with 19th-cent. manuscript notes & additions in black ink concerning the Frisian family Gevaerts). Ex bibliotheca F.H.M. Ouwerling (with his circular book-plate mounted on upper paste-down). – Joints of both vols. broken (repaired with cloth on inner hinges), spines partly rubbed/ worn, covers of both vols. strengthened with rexine. Sl. foxed/ browned, but nevertheless in a good interior condition.