Live auction - Lot 312
[Costumes - Militaria]
[Napoléon III et son armée vers 1859].
[C. 1860]
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Leporello 12mo: 25 hand-coloured lithographs (incl. cover), 14,6 x 10,4 cm (sheet), wove paper, 3 stone signed (spotted, sm. tear on fold).
Front pl. mounted on green folder (sl. rubbed and soiled, tape on lower joint).
Military uniforms of the French equestrian and pedestrian army under Napoleon III. Ms. description of Zouave (pl. [15]) on a paper mounted at one edge on pl. [16] and ms. notes on the pastedown of a study of the average size of men in troops in the French Empire.
Ref. BnF. - Hiler, p. 602. - Cp. Colas 2138.