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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the ... collection of Mr. Sidney G. Reilly of New York and London;
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Reilly, Sidney G. (from old catalog) Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 American Art Association
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Art Art
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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euville. It is seldom that this sumptuous publication (the most important of its kind that has been published) is offered for public sale, and special copies on Japan paper are uncommon. The full-page plates are All Proofs in Two States, one in black and white, the other in colors. All the illustrations in the text, including the small vignettes have a Proof of the same on a full-size leaf of Japan paper. An Item of Unusual Association Interest, in a Handsome Binding. 529. Costumes of the French Army. Chelminski (Jan V.) and Malibran (A.). L'Armée du Duché de Varsovie. Texte par le Commandant A. Malibran, ancien chef d'escadron d'artillerie. With, a series of 48 finely colored plates depicting the military dress of the various branches of the army, also some un-colored plates each containing several portraits of officers. Thick royal 4to,green crushed French levant morocco, fillet borders, with centre ornament of a cluster of flags in gilt, floral designs and eagle corner ornaments on (Continued
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WILLIAM COMBE (No. 523) Third Session, Thursday Afternoon, May 5th (No. 529. Costumes of the French Army.—Continued) covers, elaborately gilt tooled back, eagle as center ornament, gilt tooled inside border, gilt top, uncut. Original wrappers bound in, by a. taffin. Paris: J. Leroy et Cie, 1913 Large Paper, limited to 1000 copies, of which this is No. 59, signed Jan V. Chelminski, also signed Jan V. Chelminski on half-title. A sumptuous publication, and in a handsome binding, the elaborate groupflags on the sides of which are from designs by Raffet. 530. Costumes of the French Militaire. Petit Museum Militaire; Galerie Militaire. A series of 125 engraved plates in colors, some heightened with gold and silver, showing the military costumes of the French Army in the early part of the Nineteenth Century. 2 vols, royal 8vo, contemporary half straight-grain morocco, backs emblematically tooled in gilt, some edges uncut, bindings rubbed. (Paris: Chez Martinet, 1807-1816) Very Rare Series of M

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