(MILITARY UNIFORMS)Biblio.com
[MILITARY UNIFORMS].Biblio.com
Uniformes des gardes d'honneur des différens corps dans les sept départemens de la Hollande; formés pour la réception de . l'Empereur et Roi. . Uniformen van de gardes dhonneur van de onderscheiden corpsen in de zeven départementen van Holland; opgericht tot de ontfangst van . den Keizer en Koning.
1811I2KL46GGL54CAmsterdam 1811. Squarish Royal folio 42.5 x 32 cm. Evert Maaskamp Recent boards covered with light green paper with the original plain paper wrappers laid down over the green paper. Kept in a matching green half goatskin morocco clamshell box light green paper sides. With 12 aquatint costume plates plate size 32.5 x 23 cm in the publishers original hand-colouring with the original tissue guard leaf tipped onto each plate. 48 pp. Beautifully coloured copy with both a wide variety of bright colours and subtle shading of the rare first and only early edition of a series of large aquatint plates showing the uniforms of Napoleon's honour guards cavalry infantry and marine in 11 Dutch cities with the letterpress leaves providing both an explanation of the figures in the plates in French and Dutch and a list of the names of all the guards for each city. Since each city appears to have developed its own uniforms the colours and style vary greatly. "Not only visually attractive but also extremely rare" Legermuseum; "l'original est de la plus grande rareté" Colas.When the French Revolutionary army toppled the Dutch Republican government in 1795 they found much support in the population and established the nominally independent Batavian Republic under French-sympathisers. After Napoleon declared himself Emperor in 1804 he established his brother Louis Napoleon as King of the Netherlands in 1806 but finding him more partial to his subjects than to the French he recalled him in 1810 and annexed the Netherlands. The honour guard was first set up under Louis Napoleon's reign to receive him when he toured his realm but it was reconstituted in the form shown here in preparation for the Emperor Napoleon's visit to the recently annexed Netherlands.Book and binding in fine condition with only an occasional very minor spot tiny hole or smudge. The old wrappers mounted on the new binding are tattered.l Colas 2937 note 1904 facsimile with ref. to original; Landwehr Colour plates 457 2 copies; NCC 4 copies; Rijksmuseum BI-B-FM-104-0 http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.516556; Legermuseum Boek van de maand oktober 2011 https://legermuseum.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/boek-van-de-maand-november; WorldCat 5 copies; not in Hiler; Lipperheide. ABE CAT Costumes & Uniforms hardcover
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