This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...nation, with their quarterings, crests, and helmets; also the arms of other states and places, in number upwards of three thousand. An edition of this work was printed at Nuremberg, by A. Wagenman, in 1630. The centre shield bears, or, on a bend azure, a salmon party per pale argent and gules; the crest, a willow ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...nation, with their quarterings, crests, and helmets; also the arms of other states and places, in number upwards of three thousand. An edition of this work was printed at Nuremberg, by A. Wagenman, in 1630. The centre shield bears, or, on a bend azure, a salmon party per pale argent and gules; the crest, a willow surmounted by a salmon in bend, as in the arms. These are the ensigns of the family of Die Rosengriin of Meissen, in Upper Saxony. The dexter shield of the vignette bears the arms of the family of Dornheim of Silesia, gules, three trout, their heads meeting in the centre of the escutcheon; the heraldic position of the trout, seemingly fanciful, is derived from the habits of fish, which are active and amusing. A naturalist, crossing a brook, saw at the bottom of the stream the resemblance of a flower, which consisted of a circular assemblage of minnows, their heads all meeting in a centre, and their tails diverging at equal distances, which being elevated above their heads, gave the fish the exact appearance of a flower half blown; the object that attracted them all was a dead minnow, which they seemed to be devouring. The other shield, azure, three barbel embowed with their heads to the centre argent, shows the arms of Von Hanfstengel of Meissen, on the banks of the Elbe, a river abounding with fish, and in all the features of natural beauty second only to the Rhine. The devices of early heraldry were necessarily chosen from objects familiar to the vassals of the fief; and, in accounting for the adoption of implements in daily use, their importance must not be considered with regard to the present state of civilization. The earliest method of taking fish, that used by the Nimrods of Egypt, previously to the invention either of hooks or nets, was by...
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