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Although heraldry in Croatian and Bosnian and Herzegovinian historiography keeps important place, it is a field which is not systematically researched and evaluated. It means that continuous interest for helardry, as auxiliary historical science, doesn't exist in any of those two historiographies, equally on the side of historians and scientists from other disciplines, as on the side of amateurs, and oscilations are very discernible in its professional and scientific study. Despite all, heraldry in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina didn't disappear, from its beginnings to nowdays, mainly on the basis of individual efforts, and thanks to occasional appearance of new works or reprinting of older ones. Therefore authors bring exhaustive bibliography of Croatian and Bosnian and Herzegovinian works, as a contribution to future comprehensive heraldic bibliography of those two historical territories, with aim to present, at one place, everything published from the field of heraldry, taken as scientifically or professionally relevant and useful. Such a wide quantitative selection might be a basis for future qualitative analysis. Attached bibliography contains more than 900 bibliographic units - books, studies or articles - listed as a result of research work of the authors, but also as a result of consultation of different, printed or electronic, bibliographic catalogues. It is mostly created on the basis of direct insight into works (de visu), and partially through the insight of other sources. Bibliography is arranged alphabetically, according to descendant order of authors surnames, while works inside opus of particular author are arranged chronologically. Titles of books, papers, or collection of papers, same as of lexicons and encyclopedias, are written in italic letters. Works printed in periodical publications are listed with data on year, volume and/or number of publication, and finally, with spans of pages. All Croatian and Bosnian and Herzegovinian works are taken into account, same as those from neighbouring historiographies, Italian, Slovenian, Austrian, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Montenegrian etc., including also works from the fields of numismatics, sfragistics, genealogy, vexilology, and historiography in general, which might be useful for heraldic researchers in their own studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]