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MILITARY UNIFORMS -- VERNET, Horace and Eugène LAMI. Collection des Uniformes des Armées françaises, de 1791 à 1814. Paris: Gide fils, 1822. -- Collection Raisonnée des Uniformes Français, de 1814 à 1824. Paris: Anselin et Pochard, 1825.
2 volumes, 4° (266 x 175mm). Half-title in each volume. 100 (vol. I) and 48 (vol. II) lithographic plates by Delpech or Villain after Horace and Carl Vernet and Lami. (Occasional light spotting or off-setting, more noticeable in a few plates only, numbers removed from several plates.) Vol. I: 19th-century half red morocco, gilt spine (light wear at fore-corners); vol. II: 19th-century half green morocco ruled in gilt. Provenance: Tsarskoe Selo Palace Library (ink stamp on half-titles) -- Tsar Alexander II (dedication stamp as Tsarevich on half-titles).
A LARGE COPY, FROM THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL LIBRARY at Tsarskoe Selo. Peter the Great bestowed the palace on his wife, Catherine I, in 1708. By the time the library at the Catherine Palace, also home to the now-lost amber room, was nationalised in 1917, it contained 28,000 books, most of which was sold abroad.
Both collections, the latter continuing the first, originally appeared in parts; they are 'parmi les plus intéressants de ceux relatifs à l'armée française' (Colas). The second volume appeared in 1825 Colas names Delpech as the lithographer of the plates in the first volume and Villain in the second, but the majority of plates in both volumes here are signed on the stone by Villain. Colas also describes a purported second issue, with plate numbers effaced, as sometimes occurs in these volumes. Brunet V, 1144 (calling for 96 plates in vol. I); Colas 2987-2989; Lipperheide Qk 32-33; Vicaire II, 909 (calling for 101 plates); Vinet 2255 (96 plates in vol. I). (2)
2 volumes, 4° (266 x 175mm). Half-title in each volume. 100 (vol. I) and 48 (vol. II) lithographic plates by Delpech or Villain after Horace and Carl Vernet and Lami. (Occasional light spotting or off-setting, more noticeable in a few plates only, numbers removed from several plates.) Vol. I: 19
A LARGE COPY, FROM THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL LIBRARY at Tsarskoe Selo. Peter the Great bestowed the palace on his wife, Catherine I, in 1708. By the time the library at the Catherine Palace, also home to the now-lost amber room, was nationalised in 1917, it contained 28,000 books, most of which was sold abroad.
Both collections, the latter continuing the first, originally appeared in parts; they are 'parmi les plus intéressants de ceux relatifs à l'armée française' (Colas). The second volume appeared in 1825 Colas names Delpech as the lithographer of the plates in the first volume and Villain in the second, but the majority of plates in both volumes here are signed on the stone by Villain. Colas also describes a purported second issue, with plate numbers effaced, as sometimes occurs in these volumes. Brunet V, 1144 (calling for 96 plates in vol. I); Colas 2987-2989; Lipperheide Qk 32-33; Vicaire II, 909 (calling for 101 plates); Vinet 2255 (96 plates in vol. I). (2)
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