LE PANORAMA TYPES ET UNIFORMES DE L'ARMEE FRANCAISE by Edouard Detaille and Editor Ludovic Baschet

(Subject: Uniforms, Dress & Insignia - General) French text. An extremely rare title comprising 56 large format colour plates illustrating the the uniforms of the regiments and forces of the Army of France during the early days of the Third Republic following the fall of Emperor Napoleon III in 1870. The large, landscape volume is presented in red boards with silver and gilt titling. Boards are stained with the remnants of a pasted on label on the front, but otherwise in good condition for their age. There are traces of pencil marking at the title page and a previous owner has pasted two black and white photographs at the front, free endpapers. All the colour plates are in fine condition but the final plate is detached and slightly ragged. (Published: 1889) (Publisher: Librarie Strauss) (Pagination: large landscape format, 60pp, 56 full page colour plates) (Condition: good in red boards) UL-XXXXXX