Russian Military Manuscript by Anonymous - 1835: A collection of original drawings on 13 folio paper sheets of which 9 water colour and 4 pen and ink drawings.

A collection of original drawings on 13 thick folio paper sheets (c. 525 x 350 mm) with watermark J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1834, of which 9 water colour and 4 pen and ink drawings. All of them with calligraphed Russian captions or headings. No place (Moscow or St. Petersburg) 1835. Loosely contained in a cont. Russian green morocco portfolio. Both covers with a broad gold frame of roll tooled floral stamps, with an inner rectangle ruled in gold with floral corner pieces. Paste-downs and inner flaps lined with red silk. Inner spine lined with green morocco richly gilt. Library paper label with manuscript numbering to upper left corner of front cover. Oblong folio (538 x 360 mm). Extremeties worn, covers rubbed.


An exquisitely hand coloured and precisely rendered collection of drawings related to technical aspects of the Russian artillery in 1835. Three sheets with drawings all of them delicately hand coloured include members of the Russian armed forces handling military equipment e. g. the rolling of a shell gun onto a carriage ; the loading and shooting with a shell gun over the parapet (so called "shooting through the bank"); and a method of installing the base of a swivel platform for shell guns. Six sheets with numerous drawings depicting hand coloured technical details of artillery equipment shown on the first three sheets, and 4 sheets with pen-and ink outline drawings of cannon barrels and ammunition and including tables comparing sizes. An excellently illustrated Russian manuscript on artillery in a well preserved contemporary Russian green morocco binding.