Napoleonic Uniforms Tapa dura - 1993

Pearson College Div. hardcover. Good. 9x3x11. Volume 2 has small piece of tape on dust jacket, ships same or next day with tracking

Macmillan. very nice copy of volume 2 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1993.

Macmillan. volume 1 only; very nice copy of the first edition in very nice dust jacket . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1993.

Pearson College Div, 1993. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x3x11. Knotel, Herbert. 2 Volume Set. Both are First Edition, First Printings. Both dust jackets are in very good condition. Both have uniform design and color cloth boards. Both are clean with good bindings, no marks or notations.

MacMillan, 1993. Vols 1 and 2. This unique work illustrates French military costumes from the 1780s to 1830: infantry, cavalry, engineers, musicians, cadets, aviators (in a balloon corps!), fencing masters, Swiss Guards (and other foreign units under French command), and many other categories. All ranks are shown, as are the distinctive uniforms of many different regiments. Elting, a military historian, supplies informative comments on each plate. The nearly 2000 watercolors were painted for him by Knotel (d. 1963), a German authority on military costume whose father Richard (d. 1914) was in his time the world's leading expert in the field. The younger Knotel's Handbuch der Uniformkunde (Hamburg: Schulz, 1937; 7th ed.) is a classic but does not compare in beauty with the present work. Though Napoleonic Uniforms has an inadequate glossary and lacks page numbers, index, and an over-all table of contents, it is indispensable to anyone seriously interested in the subject. Clean No marks.. 1st… Leer más