Les Coiffures de l'Armée Francaise: Revue Mensuelle Illustrée -- IVe Partie Cavalerie 1791-1815

Paris: Leroy, 1909. Hardcover. 56 pages, 21 leaves of color plates: in-text color illustrations and line drawings; 34 cm. Brown library buckram with gilt spine title. Bound in are the original plain wrappers for the parts, which were issued from 1909 to 1913. Ex-library with bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia on the front fixed endpaper, stamped "withdrawn"; perforated stamp on first wrapper; accession number stamped at lower edge of first page of text. A scarce and heavily illustrated study of the headgear of the French cavalry in the 19th century. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Very Good- Condition: rubbed; several pages are detached but present; 2 leaves lack lower corner without loss of text or illustration; chipping along fore-edge of a few leaves; otherwise, clean and solid. Very Good -. Item #011771

Price: $300.00