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Silhouettes Militaires. De la Révolution et du 1er Empire Collection Bernard-Franck

By: Brisquet

Price: $6,000.00

Seller ID: 005001

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

An magnificent collection of 20 military costume mixed media oil paintings that were once part of a major French collection of militariana. N.d., 1830 to 1860 -- these were nostalgic portraits created during the reigns of Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III). Brisquet, the artist, apparently was set-up on the esplanade by les Invalides, certainly a logical place for a creator of military-related bric-a-brac to set up shop, so to speak, and seek to sell his wares. A variety of sizes, ranging in height between 34 and 45 cm, and width, 10 to 29 cm. We have 21 panels in all, with o...
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L'Armee Francaise. Types et Uniformes

By: Detaille, Eduoard, illustrator; Jules Richard, author of text

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Paris, Boussard, Valadon & Cie.: 1887

Seller ID: 001509

Binding: Portfolios

Condition: Very Good

Three portfolios, each elephantine folios measuring 19 by 14 inches, 50 by 37 cm. With 60 colored plates in third volume. Vol. I: three title page with color illustration (all three) and 128 pp. Vol. II: same title and 116 pp. Many text illustrations as well. The aquarelles and drawings used for the work were four years in the making. The publication was meant to glorify the French military, from the Royal Army through the Revolutionary and First Empire armies, to the Restoration, the African corps, the Crimean War era, the Franco-Prussian War and the present at the time of publication...
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The Leaguer of Ladysmith Nov. 2nd 1899 to Feb. 28th 1900.

By: Dixon, Captain C. M.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode: 1900

Seller ID: 002820

Binding: Paper on Boards

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, 12 by 9.25 inches, 30 by 23 cm. Dixon, member of the 16th Lancers during the Boer War, did these 18 humorous sketches during the siege of Ladysmith. With color illustration and caption on recto, a brief textual explanation or commnetary on verso. Quite an unusual production. Paper on boards with considerable wear and soiling. Generally clean within.
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The Comic Military Alphabet. Army Navy National Guard

By: Falls, De Witt C..

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1894

Seller ID: 003069

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 20 by 14 cm. Unpaginated, with 26 comical chromolithographs, and before each of these plate leaves is a leaf with a comical caption written on the recto. Hard to come by in this, its original format and edition. Soiling to the cloth. The stiff card leaves are clean, the binding, tight.
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A Practical Course of Artillery

By: Field, G. T.

Price: $2,750.00

Publisher: Royal Arsenal, Woolrich, England, December 1842

Seller ID: 006421

Binding: Half Morocco. Pebbled cloth on boards.

Condition: Very Good

A fine handwritten officer's account, richly illustrated, explicating the latest up-to-date methods of manufacture and use of cannons, shells, rockets, ammunition for the British Army in 1842. 8vo. 20.5 by 17 cm. 299 pp. 91 vignette illustrations, seven of which are in color. Subjects include Military Bridges, Military Law, Gunpowder, Artillery and Gunnery, the Casting of Ordnance, the Examination of Shot and Shells, the Carriage Department, The Construction of Iron Guns. Covered, besides what was mentioned above, laboratory work, saltpetre, bombs, and bullet molds.
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Das Preussische heer unter Koenig Wilhelm I. 1870/1871.

By: Guentter, A.

Price: $10,000.00

Publisher: 1919-1921

Seller ID: 003345

Binding: Half Morocco.

Condition: Fine

Manuscript containing 84 original mounted watercolors depicting the Franco-Prussian War. 4to. 29 by 24 cm. 16 leaves with text and painted flags of all the German regiments in the war, followed by the 84 watercolors, each with a title written onto a separate sheet preceding it. At the end, a four page table of contents. While the illustrations are in a sense celebrating the German army and its individual regiments, the paintings are also undeniably beautiful, and in their impressive detail, come off as highly realistic and honest. The artist, about whom nothing is known beyond this body o...
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Image for The Life, Adventures, and Opinions of Col. George Hanger. Written by Himself. [Together with] To All Sportsmen, and Particularly Farmers and Gamekeepers (Three volumes in all)

The Life, Adventures, and Opinions of Col. George Hanger. Written by Himself. [Together with] To All Sportsmen, and Particularly Farmers and Gamekeepers (Three volumes in all)

By: Hanger, Col. George (The Life co-written, without acknowledgement, by William Combe.)

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: London, J. Debrett for Life; Sportsmen: self-published, printed by J. J. Stockdale: 1801, 1814

Seller ID: 006406

Binding: Full Decorated Morocco

Condition: Near FIne

Extra-illustrated three volumes, with 96 additional plates, 45 of the plates being hand-colored, and beautifully bound by R. Wallis in full straight-grained red morocco. 8vo. The two works are not exactly the same size, although they match very well and work well as a set. A number of folding plates as well, and of these, two frontises folding and hand-colored. The two volume Life is 21.5 by 13.5 cm, the To All Sportsmen: 22.5 by 14.5 cm. Life: 330, 474 pp. Sportsmen: 226, 8 pp. Extra plates include many portraits and also architectural views of people and/or places with some nexus...
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La vie de garnison a Maubeuge a la veille de la Grande Guerre

By: Heidet, S.

Price: $6,000.00

Publisher: Maubeuge (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, 1900

Seller ID: 004269

Binding: Hardcover. Chammy spines. Marbled pastedown.

Condition: Very Good

Two fabulous albums of 81 original watercolors of French military caricature from the turn of the twentieth century. One of the illustrations is dated 1900, and so we assume the balance were done within a few years prior or post, as they are all of a single piece. Both 4o. One, 35.5 by 23 cm, the other, slightly smaller, 31 by 20.5 cm. 46 and 35 watercolors, respectively. The images are all on separate sheets which are mounted by inserting into diagonal corner slots cut out as in many a photo album. These separate sheets are not of a single size, but generally they measure around 25 by 1...
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The Boy Scout ABC

By: HK

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company: 1916

Seller ID: 003145

Binding: Wraps, staples.

Condition: Very Good

4to. 27 by 21.5 cm. [16] pp. including wraps. Scarce title, with only five copies located on OCLC FirstSearch. ABC rhymes relate to camping, scouting and patriotic virtues. With four color plates. Light wear.
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[Manuscript] Meinem geliebten Stropp

By: Hönerbach, Heinz

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Cologne (?), Germany, 1938-1950

Seller ID: 006267

Binding: Hardcover. Half cloth. Paper pastedown on board

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 21 by 19 cm. Unpaginated,
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Image for An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshall Prince Blucher, comprising the Battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, . . . " An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo

An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshall Prince Blucher, comprising the Battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, . . . " An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo

By: Mudford, William. George Cruikshank, illustrator

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1817

Seller ID: 006026

Binding: Half Morocco. Over cloth boards.

Condition: Very Good

4to. 32 by 28 cm. xviii, [2], 368 pp. 28 hand-colored aquatint plates, of which one is a half-title page, another, is a double paged and folding panorama plate of The Battle of Waterloo; plus two folding maps. (The plate count given in the book's plate description is 30, and this includes the maps.) Tooley 336. Abbey Life 372. Cohn, Cruikshank 580. Condition: hinges expertly repaired. Light spotting and scratches on cloth and leather of binding. Mostly clean within. A tight, and attractive copy.
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Image for The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, . . . Exhibiting a Correct Account of the General Congress of Vienna, The Escape of Bonaparte from the Isle of Elba, the Flight of Louis XVIII from His Capital, the Defeat of Bonaparte at the Ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo, . . .

The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, . . . Exhibiting a Correct Account of the General Congress of Vienna, The Escape of Bonaparte from the Isle of Elba, the Flight of Louis XVIII from His Capital, the Defeat of Bonaparte at the Ever Memorable Battle of Waterloo, . . .

By: Nicholson, William

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Kelly: 1816

Seller ID: 003170

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Minus

Folio-sized. 40 by 26 cm. 583, [1] pp. With 22 hand-colored plates, mostly depicting uniformed military leaders, and monarchical leaders, on horseback. Detailed, contemporary history of the Napoleonic wars. A few minor tears to leaves. Occasional light soiling. Mostly clean. Calf is heavily stained and abraded. Joints repaired. Spine is dry. Nonetheless an attractive full leather binding. Ex-lib, with minor indicia thereof (a few light name stamps) in prelims.
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Ceskoslovenské Legie v Rusku Malírské Dokumenty.

By: Nikodem, V.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Tiskla, Vydal Památník Odboje v Praze: 1922

Seller ID: 005719

Binding: Card. String tie.

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong, 24 by 35 cm. [8] pp., followed by 49 leaves of mounted color plates, with a total of 99 such plate illustrations, depicting the Czech Legion's fighting on behalf of Russia during the First World War, followed by its fighting against the Bolsheviks, during which briefly, they had the upper hand against the Soviets and during early 1919, controlled the entirely of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. By the end of 1919, though, their fortunes had turned and the remaining Legionnaires had to run for their lives any way they could, with many escaping via Vladivostok. Most of the Legionnaires di...
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Costumes Militaires Franais

By: Noirmont, Mrs. Dunoyer de and Alfred de Marbot, both authors and artists. Lithography by Andre and Gustave David

Price: $15,000.00

Publisher: Paris and London, respectively, Clment; E. Gambart: 1860

Seller ID: 006445

Binding: Quarter Morocco. Marbled boards

Condition: Near Fine

A gorgeous, sweeping collection of historic French military costume plates, as comprehensive as imaginable, spanning 1439 to 1815, or from the Renaissance to Waterloo. Folio, 45 by 33.5 cm. 450 hand-colored plates in all. Vol. 1: 100 pp, hand-colored plates numbered 1 to115. Vol. 2: 48 pp. Plates numbered 116 to 300. Vol. 3: 58 pp. Plates numbered 1 to 150. The illustrations are generally not static, dull costume plates but rather, the artist usually shows the soldiers in engaged in some activity, and so the illustrations also document the military lifestyle of the day depicted. Many...
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1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. Household Brigade Drag Hounds. 1893-1894

By: Rawlinson, Captain and R. J. Marker

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Windsor, England, Oxley & Son: 1895

Seller ID: 005771

Binding: Half Morocco.

Condition: Very Good

Scarce. with no copies found on OCLC First Search. Oblong 4to, 25.5 by 34 cm. [6], 43, [2] pp. 22 plates -- photographs, copies of mostly humorous drawings relating to the account. Not counted as plates -- among the pages that are paginated -- are the final leaves with mounted programmes, menus, invitations relating to the hunts. Drag racing began as a preparatory exercise to train foxhounds, who instead of chasing an actual fox, run after an artificially laid scent, one carried by a person bearing a material soaked in a pungent aniseed or other smelly substance. By the mid-nineteenth c...
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Album of the Campaign of 1861 in Western Virginia

By: Roesler, J. N. [John Nep]

Price: $10,000.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company: 1862

Seller ID: 006809

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A beautiful copy of this scarce set of Civil War-related lithographic plates. Of particular interest because it was an early published set of plates depicting the ongoing war. Oblong folio, 33 by 43.5 cm. Complete, with 20 lithographic plates. Condition: plates have occasional light marginal soiling, with a few plates having a very thin band of soiling along an edge. The illustrations themselves are uniformly sharp and bright, and overall the plates read as clean. The binding has the original moire shallowy grooved cloth, with the spine rebacked in a matching brass brown color that make...
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Framed Original Watercolor Painting of Three Red-Coated Soldiers Loading a Cannon

By: Rowlandson, Thomas

Price: $3,000.00

Seller ID: 003478

Binding: NA

Condition: Fine

18 by 11.5 cm, with frame, 25 by 18 cm. The picture is outlined in pen and ink, with washes of watercolor, as typical of Rowlandson. It depicts three redcoats with tricorn hats loading and/or aiming a cannon by the entrance to a castle. The figures are caricature, and one gets a sense of ineptitude from the soldiers' blase, happy-go-lucky expression, with two of the three nonchalantly looking on more than usefully contributing, but the competence or lack thereof is not really shown clearly. The modest sized illustration, though, is very pleasing, and its little touches of color -- mainly ...
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Image for L'Antique Rome Description Historique & Pittoresque de out ce qui concerne le peuple Romain, dans ses costumes, Civils, Militaires & Religieux, dans ses moeurs publiques & privees depuis Romulus, jusqu'a Augustule Ouvage orne de cinquante tableaux

L'Antique Rome Description Historique & Pittoresque de out ce qui concerne le peuple Romain, dans ses costumes, Civils, Militaires & Religieux, dans ses moeurs publiques & privees depuis Romulus, jusqu'a Augustule Ouvage orne de cinquante tableaux

By: Saint-Sauveur, J. G. (J. Grasset)

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Deroy: 1796

Seller ID: 004163

Binding: Quarter Calf, Speckled Boards

Condition: Very Good

4to. 25.5 by 20 cm. Two frontises (one with engraving, other hand-colored plate), title, [2], 221, [3] pp. With 50 hand-colored aquatint plates, the most exciting not merely costume but showing military and equestrians on move or in action. (And first frontis is B/W.) Colas 1298. The timing of the publication was significant -- it was the fourth year of the Directoire, and so noted on the title. Revolutionary France drew inspiration from Ancient Rome in terms of its republicanism, its muscular outlook, and its aesthetics (although this was a trend that certainly predated the Revolution). ...
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Deutschlands Heer und Flotte in Wort und Bild. Germany's Army and Navy by Pen and Picture. 1899.

By: Sigal, Gustave A.; contributions by Major-General von Specht

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Akron, OH, The Werner Company: 1900

Seller ID: 001887

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Text in German and English, with one column on each page devoted to each. Original pictorial cloth. 17.5 by 13.5 inches (44 by 35 cm); [8], 181 pp., with 42 fine, bright chromolithographic plates of military costume, ships, and troops on parade, drilling, on horseback, reconnoitering and scouting, bivouacking, in the field and barracks, engineering -- in short, these are far more than static costume illustrations but rather ones that depict action scenes. Published by Werner, which was a leading German American publisher in the late nineteenth c...
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Life in the Army Every-Day Incidents in Camp, Field, And Quarters, Sketched by R. Simkin

By: Simkin, R.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1890

Seller ID: 001687

Binding: Quarter Morocco

Condition: Very Good

From the high meridian of the British Empire, one can imagine the eager young English boy's fantasies stirred by this glimpse into military life. With 20 oblong color plates, including title. One plate with minor edge chip, and a few plates with some marginal darkening. Occasional finger soiling besides. Tight quarter red morocco over brown cloth, heavy boards. A sturdy and attractive copy overall.
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