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77 - MARCO DE SAINT-HILAIRE, Emile.
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Estimate €200 - €300
Description
MARCO DE SAINT-HILAIRE, Emile. An Anecdotal, Political and Military History of the Imperial Guard. Paris, Penaud et Cie, 1847. Very large 8vo, (3)-IV-712-(4) pp., 50 plates, 39 of which are in colour. Publisher’s navy-blue cardboard binding, gilt edges (slight scuffing to the binding, spine very slightly tarnished, frontispiece slightly browned, a few foxing spots, particularly in the early quires but nothing serious, a few pages slightly out of sequence, pp. 351–354). The illustrations consist of a frontispiece, 11 black-and-white plates and 39 colour plates of Imperial Guard uniforms. Woodcuts in the text Sheet music in the text (marches and fanfares of the Guard, transcribed by Goria) First edition. Illustrated by Bellange, Lamy, de Moraine and Verniere Provenance: Engraved bookplate of the English painter Edward Sherard Kennedy (1837–1900) on the inside back cover.
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