DUPLESSI-BERTAUX (J.)

Recueil des Principaux Costumes des Armées Alliées.

Seconde Livraison. Troupes Anglaises, Infanterie et Cavalerie. 4to. Twelve plates in coloured and uncoloured states, drawn by Finart, engraved by Duplessi-Bertaux, finished by Levachez. Some light foxing and browning, otherwise very good in modern quarter blue morocco on marbled boards, just a little rubbed at the extremities, original blue paper wrap in French bound in before the text, similar in English bound after last plate. 6pp. contents leaf. Galignani, Paris, 1816.

£1,250.00

AMOT 303, with date of 1814; Colas 915; Ponti 576 “Ouvrage de toute rareté, non cité par Lipperheide…”

Highly attractive series of plates of the British Army, the other volumes in the series dealt with the Russian and Prussian armies.

Attractive military bookplate of J. Baeyens, engraved by Rousselot, to the front pastedown.

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88151