LA QUÉRIÈRE, Eustache de. Essai sur les girouettes, épis, crêtes et autres décorations des anciens, combles et pignons, pour faire suite à l'histoire des habitations au Moyen-Age. Published in Paris and Rouen by Derache et Dumoulin and Lebrument in 1846. In-8 format. Half blond glazed calf, smooth spine decorated with simple and special fillets, gilt frieze, author and title in gold lettering on red morocco leather, speckled edges. XX, 86 pages and 8 hors-texte plates engraved by Polyclès Langlois, including a frontispiece. First board fragile (spine partly split), leather flap detached from spine, rubbing. Missing title page (filled by a page laminated to the spine) with very slight damage to the mention of the places of publication, title of the second text replaced by its typescript, some freckling in the margins. First edition of this sought-after study of roof ornamentation in the Middle Ages, by historian Eustache de la Quérière. It is illustrated with 8 plates engraved by Polyclès Langlois, showing dozens of examples of roof finishing. Following: Recherches historiques sur les enseignes des maisons particulières suivies de quelques inscriptions murales prises en divers lieux, by Eustache de la Quérière, published in Paris by Didron and in Rouen by François et Herpin in 1852. VII and 131 pages, one engraved frontispiece plate and 27 woodcut subjects. Copy complete with plates, inside fresh.