Description:
A Paris, chez Lattré, graveur ordinaire de Monseigneur le Dauphin, n.d. [1767].Small 8vo [182 x 108 mm] of (4) ll. including 1 engraved title with the royal arms and cyphers watercolored and 3 engraved index ll., 120 full-page plates.
Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fleurons, green morocco lettering piece. Contemporary binding.
First edition, first issue.
Precious volume, entirely engraved, representing the uniforms of the infantery of the army of King Louis XV.
The album contains a first suite, very rare when complete of 103 engravingsrepresenting the French and Swiss Guards, 3 unnumbered engravings, the different regiments of infantry, from 1 to 93 and the light troops by rank of seniority, from 94 to 101.
Our copy does not include a plate 40 but does contain 103 plates as indicated in the index and unlike the copy described by Glasser that only mentions 99 plates.
Very rare work complete with its 103 plates.
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