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Esquisses historiques des differents corps qui composent l'armée française.

Stock Code 53273

Saumur, A. Degouy, 1835

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Cavalry uniforms. First edition of these fine plates of cavalry uniforms set against attractive backgrounds, all finely hand-coloured. The author (1804-1890) became a general in the French cavalry, having served in Spain and north Africa.

First edition. Large folio (54 x 40 cm), pictorial title, dedication, decorative head- and tailpieces, 13 hand-coloured lithographs after Charles Aubry and Karl Leoillot, of military subjects, each surrounded with a broad border of vignettes, contemporary red morocco backed marbled boards, some slight fading to top edges of boards.

Colas 106; Lipperheide 2315; Mennessier p18.
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Esquisses historiques des differents corps qui composent l'armée française.

AMBERT, Joachim.

Stock code: 53273

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