SAINT-HILAIRE, Emil Marco de.
Geschichte der Kaiser-Garde.
Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1848. 4to. With 43 full-page plates (of which 39 hand-coloured, mostly woodengraved, after H. Bellangé, E. Lami, Ch. Vernier), many smaller woodengravings in text. Contemporary blue morocco, title lettered in gold on spine, covers gold-tooled, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. XII, 536 pp.
€ 750
Interesting history of the Imperial Guard of Napoleon, richly illustrated with many hand-coloured military costume plates.
Very good copy. Binding slighly rubbed. A colourful work on the Imperial Guard of Napoleon. Colas 2621; Lipperheide 48.
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