Costumes Militaires; Catalogue Des Principales Suites De Costumes Militaries Francais Parues Tant En France Qu'a L'estranger Depuis Le Re'gne De Louis XV Justqu'a nos Jours et Des Suites De Costumes Militaire E'trangers Parues En France
Paris: Henri Vivien, 1900. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Item #028749
Limited to only 45 copies. Produced by a member of La Sabretache, a French society of military history studies. Hand-colored title page, regular title page, hand colored frontispiece and three other hand-colored plates. The catalogue lists every plate in order as they appear in French military costume books. Many editions have only three colored plates. The plates here are:Tambour-Major des Gardes Suisses sous Louis XVI; [2] Hoffman, timbalier de la Musique des Gardes Francaises en petit uniforme, 1786; Martinet,Tambour des Cent-Suisses maison ; Weiland, Officier de Chasseurs (infanterie Legere) en 1808. Bound by J. Chevron (with his ticket) in 1/4 dark green morocco over French marbled paper covered boards and marbled endpapers, spine has evenly changed to brown, raised bands with compartment lettered and decorated in gilt. A very good copy with a bit of toning and some scattered foxing, mostly marginal.
Price: $425.00