Author: Huart, Adrien. Illustrated by Draner.
Title: La nouvelle vie militaire: Comment on devient soldat. [AND:] La vie d'officier. [WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES].
Description: Paris, Librairie Illustrée; Librairie Dreyfous, (1877). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two works in one volume. Crown quarto. Pp. 160; 341-488. With 10 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates to each book and with numerous engraved illustrations throughout. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary red quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, rubbed and chafed, title embossed in gilt, marbled endpapers; some spotting, neat paper repair to inner margin of one leaf. In a very good condition. A well preserved interior of two lovely books. ~ FIRST EDITION. A celebration of military life in numerous drawings, sketches, and coloured plates. Scarce. B-6 .

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