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FIEFFE, Eugene.
Histoire des Troupes Etrangeres Au Service de France Depuis leur origine jusqu'd nos jours et de Tous les Regiments leves dans les Pays Conquis Sous la Premiere Republique et l'Empire.
This lovely work contains 33 beautiful and vibrant hand-coloured wood-engraved military costume plates - in good, mostly clean condition. Amomng the countries represented are: Scotland, Spain, Poland, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Croatia.
- Published
- Paris: Librairie Militaire, 1854.
- References
- Bobins III 1139; Colas 1064;
- Plates
- 32
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Librairie Militaire, 1854.
- Ref
- 943
[History of the Foreign Troops In the Service of France From their origin until today and of All the Regiments raised in the Conquered Countries Under the First Republic and the Empire.] 2 volumes. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & MS signature of an early owner - September 1856. Period quarter leather bindings, raised bands, gilt-stamped compartments with black spine labels, marbled boards, wonderful wood-engraved hand-coloured plates with tissue guards throughout. Contains 33 beautiful and vibrant hand-coloured wood-engraved military costume plates - in good, mostly clean condition. Spines have been repaired in matching leather with blind tooling as required to exposed spine ends - whilst retaining original boards and new hinges. Corners were repaired and strengthened. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Aventurier (1490). 2. Lansquenet, Arquebusier des Bandes Suisses (1515). 3. Ecossais, Archer de la Garde (1539). 4. Reitre (1560). 5. Regiments Irlandais: Clare, Dillon, Lally, Roth (1750). 6. Royal-Corse - Royal-Italien (1757). 7. Royal-Ecossais - Royal-Suedois (1757). 8. Allemands et Suisses: Nassau, Berg, Lowendahl, Bentheim, Royal-Baviere, Officier des Gardes Suisses (1757). 9. Horion (Liegeois) - Royal-Pologne (1757). 10. Suisses: Waldner, Erlach, Salis, Jenner (1767). 11. Royal-Allemand. Volume 2. 12. Legion Italique, Grenadier et Chasseur a Cheval (1800). 13. Legion Cophte - Legion Grecque - Syrien (1799). 14. Pionniers Noirs (1803-06) - Pionniers Blancs (1806-10). 15. Legion Piemontaise. Infanterie Legere - Infanterie de Bataille - Grenadier (1804). 16. Garde d'Honneur de Turin (1809) - Veterans Romains (1810). 17. Regiments Suisses: 1. Reg. Officier de Grenadiers. - 2. Reg. Grenadier. - 3. Reg. Fusilier. - 4. Reg. Voltigeur (1812). 18. Legion Hanovrienne, Infanterie et Cavalierie (1804-11). 19. Regiment Joseph-Napoleon (Espagnol) (1809-13) - Bataillon Septinsulaire (1808). 20. Hussard Croate (1813) / Regiment d'Illyrie (1811). 21. Irlandais. Grenadier (1810) / Hollandais. Pupille (1812). 22. Garde Soldee d'Amsterdam. Infanterie et Cavalierie (1812). 23. Major de Chevau-Legers Polonais. 1st Regiment, No. 7 des Chevau - Legeres de France (1808-14). 24. Bataillon de Westphalie (1809) / Regiment de Prusse (1806-13). 25. Belges. 27th Regiment de Chasseurs / Piemontais. 21st Regiment de Dragons (1808). 26. Espagnols. Regiment de Catalogne / Lanciers Polonais. 1st Regiment de la Garde Imperiale (1812). 27. Polonais. Legion de la Vistu (1808-13). 28. Mameluck et Tartare Lithuanien (1812). 29. Legion Portugaise. Infanterie et Cavalerie (1808-13). 30. Hollandais. Regiment de Grenaiers de la Garde Imperiale - Lancier Rouge du 2nd Regiment de la Garde Imperiale (1811). 31. Regiment de Hohenlohe - Suisses de la Garde Royale (1824). 32. Legion Etrangere (1852).
