Lot no. 61
DETAILLE (Édouard). The Panorama. Types and Uniforms of the French Army. Paris, Baschet, Librairie Strauss, [1900].
In-4 oblong (272 x 364 mm) of 2 ff. n. o., 56 plates, midnight blue half cloth, muted smooth spine, red leatherette boards, gilt and silver title to upper board with gilt vignette on white leatherette piece (publisher's binding).
Album of 56 colour plates of uniforms after Édouard Detaille, offering a documentary series of French army uniforms under the Third Republic. The drawings are colour zincographic facsimiles of the work by Édouard DETAILLE and Jules RICHARD, L'Armée française. Types d'uniformes (Paris, Boussod & Valadon, [1885-1889]).
Small brown stain in the centre of the upper cover, a few small rings, the body of the book rebacked in the binding, a few restored marginal tears.
(Colas, n° 848; Glasser, p. 125).
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