Description: L'ÉPOPÉE DU COSTUME MILITAIRE FRANÇAISTHE EPIC OF THE FRENCH MILITARY COSTUME Text by Henri BouchotIllustrations by J.O.B. Published by Société Française D'Éditions D'art / L. Henry May, Paris, ©1898 A First Edition of this lavishly produced history of French military campaigns and uniforms from the Gauls to the Second Empire, with emphasis on Napoleon and the Grand Imperial Army. Contents: I. -War Harness of the Old Ancestors II. –The Musketeers (XVI-XVIII centuries) III. – The Marquises IV. –The Sans-Culottes V. – The Guard VI. – The Great Army VII. - Whites VIII.– The Africans 13 x 10.5 x 1.5. 302 pages 10 color plates, 175 monochrome engraved illustrations on almost every page, many hand-colored. Red and Gold Banner embossed and gilded on leather cover, gold gilding on spine, gilded edges beautiful endpapers in coral and green showing illustrations of French headgear Shelf wear on cover, interior in very good condition, binding is strained but holding engraved by M. Raymond and MM. Ducourtioux and Huillard Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville (J.O.B.) was a well-known French illustrator who reproduced uniforms with extreme precision. #Historiedefrance #empirefrancais #bibliophile #bonaparte #livre #louisxvi #charlesx#imperialguard #Frenchhistory #OLDGuard #Frenchuniforms #Napoleon #Waterloo #Napoleonic #Miltaria #antiquebook #Militarymarch #sapper #Polishlancer #19thcentury (No. 8)
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Language: French
Illustrator: JOB
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition
Author: Henri Boucho
Region: Europe
Publisher: Société Française D'Éditions D'art
Topic: Foreign Militaries
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Subject: Military & War
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1898
