Lot 60
Collezione degli uniformi del Reale Esercito e della Real Marina napoletana, Naples, 1844.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Collezione degli uniformi del Reale Esercito e della Real Marina napoletana, Without letterpress but with manuscript title and one-page plate list supplied in a contemporary hand, 26 hand-coloured lithographed plates heightened with tempera, occasional light spotting or marking but generally clean, plates with small "N.M." ink stamp to verso, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, 19th century cloth-backed boards, extremities rubbed, [Bobins 374; Colas 664], 4to, Naples, 1844.
⁂ A rare and fine set coloured with gouache. We can trace one other set at auction, albeit with a slightly different, printed title.
Description
Collezione degli uniformi del Reale Esercito e della Real Marina napoletana, Without letterpress but with manuscript title and one-page plate list supplied in a contemporary hand, 26 hand-coloured lithographed plates heightened with tempera, occasional light spotting or marking but generally clean, plates with small "N.M." ink stamp to verso, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, 19th century cloth-backed boards, extremities rubbed, [Bobins 374; Colas 664], 4to, Naples, 1844.
⁂ A rare and fine set coloured with gouache. We can trace one other set at auction, albeit with a slightly different, printed title.