MILITARY COSTUMES. - Godefroid (A.). Armies... - Lot 203 - Ferri & Associés

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MILITARY COSTUMES. - Godefroid (A.). Armies... - Lot 203 - Ferri & Associés
MILITARY COSTUMES. - Godefroid (A.). Armies of the Allied Sovereigns. Years 1814 and 1815. Paris, chez Martinet, rue du Coq, s. d. (1815). Small oblong in-folio, red half-chagr., long title, t.p. in the centre of the 1st plate, gilt head, n.r., (Lavaux). COMPLETE AND VERY RARE SET of 14 plates engraved by Adrien Godefroy, signed with his monogram, coloured at the time. 4 plates are devoted to the Russian army, 2 to the Prussian army, 4 to the English army, 3 to the Austrian army and one to the Royal Guard of the French army (Glasser, pp. 453-455; De Ridder, 142; Cols, 1263). Attached are 3 plates engraved by the same artist, also coloured at the time: 1) The first step of a young Cossack officer at the Palais-Royal. 2) The Cossacks in Good fortune. 3) The Allied Sovereigns in Paris, 1815 (placed at the beginning of this collection), all these plates (17 in total), in very beautiful and fresh colours and of the most interesting are mounted on tabs.
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