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Recueil de toutes les trovpes qui forment les Armées Françoises, dessiné et illuminé d'après nature. Nuremberg: Gabriel Nicolas Raspe, 1761.
4° (213 x 148mm). Engraved title, 222 numbered hand-coloured engraved plates including 2 bis plates, several plates on paper guards, 2-leaf letterpress table at end. Contemporary red boards (sound but rather worn).
FIRST EDITION. Colas states that the first 13 plates, depicting Royal guards, are reductions of plates by Eisen. Each of the remaining plates represents a soldier and officer in each regiment with a legend giving the name of the Colonel, the rank and date of creation of the regiment, the number of battalions or squadrons, and the number of men. Colas 2509.
4° (213 x 148mm). Engraved title, 222 numbered hand-coloured engraved plates including 2 bis plates, several plates on paper guards, 2-leaf letterpress table at end. Contemporary red boards (sound but rather worn).
FIRST EDITION. Colas states that the first 13 plates, depicting Royal guards, are reductions of plates by Eisen. Each of the remaining plates represents a soldier and officer in each regiment with a legend giving the name of the Colonel, the rank and date of creation of the regiment, the number of battalions or squadrons, and the number of men. Colas 2509.
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