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189 - [BURGHER OF HAMBURG]. - SÜHR (CHRISTOPH)].
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[BURGHER OF HAMBURG]. - SÜHR (CHRISTOPH)]. Représentation des uniformes de toutes les troupes qui ont été casernées à Hambourg, de l'année 1806 à l'année 1815. Paris, from the author [Guy Terrel Des Chênes], 1902. In-folio, (8) pp. of which the last is blank, in leaves in a percaline spine and corners wallet with leather title-piece on the spine and gilt title on the first cover; wallet a little worn with torn inner paper filler (publisher's wallet). FIRST EDITION IN LIBRARY, printed in only 155 numbered copies, this one of 150 on vellum. Edited by Guy Terrel Des Chênes, with a preface by Joseph Margerand. 158 BOARDS REPRODUCING DRAWINGS OF 482 DRESSES OF French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Danish and Russian MILITARY PERSONNEL. Christoph Sühr (1771-1842) worked as a draughtsman, painter and lithographer in Hamburg with his brother Cornelius Sühr (1781-1857). He transposed his drawings of uniforms into lithographs in a collection that he printed in a very small number of copies (2 or 3), enhanced with hand-colour. A handwritten copy was made in 1899, which served as a model for a reproduction printed by the Bibliothèque nationale, in an edition of 12 copies, some of which were enhanced with hand-colour. The present edition reproduces the latter autograph. Provenance: Count Marie-Victor-Clément de Bourqueney, a cavalry officer who built up a large library of militaria (armorial bookplate vignette), then the historian Marcel Dunan, president of the Institut Napoléon from 1947 to 1974 (bookplate vignette).
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About the sale The Empire at Fontainebleau - Second day
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Auction time 06/21/2026 at 10:30 AM
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Michel Bury and Henri du Cray
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