DUNOYER DE NOIRMONT, Baron Joseph-Anne-Emile-Edouard (1816-1896) and MARBOT, Baron Alfred de (1812-1865). Costumes militaires français. Paris: Clément and London: E. Gambart, [c.1830-60].

DUNOYER DE NOIRMONT, Baron Joseph-Anne-Emile-Edouard (1816-1896) and MARBOT, Baron Alfred de (1812-1865). Costumes militaires français. Paris: Clément and London: E. Gambart, [c.1830-60].

A magnificent monument of French military costume from 1439 to 1815, comprising 450 hand-colored lithographed plates, complete with all text. A bright and fresh copy of this definitive guide to French military costume through the end of the Napoleonic Wars, with explanatory text. The plates were lithographed by André and Gustave David after designs by Noirmont and Marbot; each plate is vividly hand-colored. Rare at auction, and more commonly encountered incomplete. Colas 1970; Lipperheide 2311 & 2313.

Three volumes, folio (445 x 320mm). Half-titles, lithographed titles, 450 hand-colored lithographs mounted on stubs, numbered 1-300 (vols. 1 & 2) and 1-150 (vol. 3). Later red quarter morocco over marbled boards, top edges and spines gilt (extremities lightly rubbed).

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