Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

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Ladurner, A., & A. Charlemagne | Garde Impériale Russe, a virtually unrecorded suite of Russian military plates, with distinguished provenance

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June 26, 07:10 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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20,000 USD

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Ladurner, A., & A. Charlemagne

Garde Impériale Russe. St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Paris: Daziaro, 1842–1852


12 very fine handcolored lithographed plates (ca. 664 x 515 mm, sheet) after Ladurner and Charlemagne, lithographed by Victor, Huot, and Bastin, printed by J. Chevalier, captioned in Russian (Cyrillic) and French with the double-headed Russian eagle and keys identifying each rank and regiment depicted, plates on guards; plate 3 with marginal discoloration just into background of image, a few plates lightly browned. Early twentieth-century half maroon morocco over marbled boards, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in second, marbled endpapers, additional flyleaves at front and back, top edge gilt; extremities a bit worn.


Very Rare: Apart from Colas (599), Garde Impériale Russe does not seem to appear in any of the standard bibliographies of costume, but it is also recorded in M. Lyons, The Russian Imperial Army. A Bibliography of Regimental Histories and Related Works (Stanford: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University 1968). No other copies seem to be cited in the auction records. The lithographs depict life guards, infantry, grenadiers, cuirassiers, and cavalry.


PROVENANCE:

Louis Napoléon Michel Ney duc d'Echingen (armorial bookplate) — N.M (small collector’s stamp on verso of each plate) —Alexandre Sementchenkoff (bookplate; Christie's London, 22 October 1987, lot 525) 

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