Foreign Military Costume

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Hand-Coloured Engraved Plates of Foreign Military Costume First edition, oblong folio, hand coloured engraved vignette title and six hand coloured engraved plates, each containing four vignettes depicting Austrian (Pl 1st), French (Pl 2nd), Russian (Pl 3d), Prussian (Pl 4th), Spanish (Pl 5th), and Persian, Greek, Chinese, and Turkish (Pl 6th) military uniforms. Plates watermarked 1823, each plate with imprint, dated from Sept. 12, 1823 to Octr. 15th 1823, the last two plates watermarked 1823, front wrapper priced @ One Guinea. Original brown printed wrappers, expertly rebacked, a few small expert repairs to the front and back wrappers. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case. A near Fine copy, of an extremely rare suite of plates, only a single copy was located by NUC (Lib of Congress). (264*370 mm). (Colas 1397. Not in Lipperheide, or any bibliography of English books with colour plates). The plates show military uniforms from various foreign armies (i.e. non-British), showcasing European and non-European regiments. The specific armies/uniforms depicted include: Austrian, French, Russian, Prussian, Spanish - and on the final plate: Persian, Greek, Chinese, and Turkish soldiers.