FRENCH REVOLUTION. Collection of the flags... - Lot 155 - Ferri & Associés

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FRENCH REVOLUTION. Collection of the flags... - Lot 155 - Ferri & Associés
FRENCH REVOLUTION. Collection of the flags of the Parisian national army made in the districts of Paris in July 1789. S.l.n.d. [Paris, 1789]. In-4, blue morocco, spine with 5 nerves with arms of the Marquis des Roys repeated at the corners, inner dent. gilt. (Small). COMPLETE COLLECTION, EXTREMELY RARE of 60 plates of flags, finely engraved and coloured at the time, in watercolour and gouache, with gold and silver highlights, mounted on tabs, the staff of which is held by a national guard; the plates are numbered 1 to 60. The first 30 plates are here in their original state, with handwritten captions specifying the name of the battalion. Of the three sets of Parisian flags published in 1789-1790, this is the most beautiful, it was presented to the National Assembly on October 7, 1790 by R.-A. Vieilh de Varenne, garde-magasin général des démolitions de la Bastille, who seems to have been the author and editor. The flags are classified by battalions and divisions. Moreau-le-jeune drew an allegorical frontispiece : A un peuple libre, engraved by Dambrun, intended to serve as a frontispiece to this collection but which was not inserted at the time. The rarest of the illustrated French books of the 18th century, of the greatest rarity in colour of the period. of the period. (Cohen 248). 271 x 198 mm. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY DUE TO ITS BRIGHT COLOURS AND ITS STATE OF PRESERVATION. Ex-libris marquis de Roys and P. J. A. Morange.
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