Napoleon's Last Grande Armee: Eyewitness Portraits from the 1813 Campaign
by Umhey, Alfred (et al)
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0974877409
- ISBN 13
- 9780974877402
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA: Military History Press, 2005. 347pp/illus. Gilt trimmed pages. New - still shrink wrapped. Beautiful new oversized book with gilt embossed Moroccan-style bonded leather binding. During the summer of 1813, two German artists drew illustrations of the French troops stationed around Dresden and Freiberg in Saxony. These were copied in the early 1900s by Charles Brun, one of the foremost uniform artists of the era. This book reproduces over 130 color plates of the original never before published Dresden Manuscript paintings of Napoleon's Grande Army by Charles Brun and 50 color Freiberg Manuscript paintings detailing the Grand Armee Uniforms. Beautiful new book. Superb full-page uniform plates. # of 1,000 total published. Signed by author on bookplate inside front cover. Clean. Signed by Author. 1st Printing. Leather. As New/No Jacket Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Limited Numbered Copy.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012325
- Title
- Napoleon's Last Grande Armee: Eyewitness Portraits from the 1813 Campaign
- Author
- Umhey, Alfred (et al)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket Issued
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0974877409
- ISBN 13
- 9780974877402
- Publisher
- Military History Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Napoleon France French Grand Army Uniform Napoleonic Wars Charles Brun
- Bookseller catalogs
- Napoleon/Napoleonic Wars;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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About DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
Specializing in quality military history books on the Napoleonic Wars, Civil War, WWI and WWII, German military and Vietnam. We also sell new Schiffer and Fedorowicz military books.
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