Esquisses historiques des différents corps oui composent l'Armée Française, / par Joachim Aubert ... ; dessiné par Charles Aubry ...
Joachim Ambert (1804 - 1890)
Category
Books
Date
1835
Materials
Place of origin
Saumur
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085659
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 7, [1], 11, [1], 11, [1], 35, [1], 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, [1], 4, 7, [1], 10, 8, 27, [1], 4 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; fol. Pencil note on verso of front free endpaper: "16 grandes planches de costumes colorées avec encadrements variés". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter dark blue morocco, mottled blue paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; gilt and blind fillets on spine to form compartments; gilt spine title: 'J. Ambert / Esquisses historiques de l'Armée Française'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Joachim Ambert (1804 - 1890), author Aubry, Charles, artist