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Historique du 19e Régiment de Dragons 1793-1913
by SAUZEY, Colonel C
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
1945. First edition thus. Limited, numbered edition printed on special luxury paper. Number 128. Original 4to. wrappers with well preserved full color Job cover bound in blue, full Morocco leather with gilt spine titles and marbled endpapers. Text in French. No publisher, no date (1945), illustrated with color plates and facsimilies and numerous b/w reproductions - some tipped-in. Full color Job cover near fine. Large 4to., 10 1/4" x 12 3/4", 316pp., plus 4pp. addenda. Colonel Sauzey wrote most of the work. The chapters concerning 1914/1918 and 1939/1945 were written by the Army Historical Service. A beautiful edition. Light foxing along top edge of page block, minor starting to outer hinge of cover. Near fine. . Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010259
- Title
- Historique du 19e Régiment de Dragons 1793-1913
- Author
- SAUZEY, Colonel C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- England & Europe; Military;
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Returnable within 10 days.
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The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Morocco
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- Gilt
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- Hinge
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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