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A fresh copy of this handsome work containing eight Russian military uniforms during the Napoleonic Wars. This is the second issue of this work with the portrait dated 1814, instead of 1806 for the first issue. A fine collection of Russian military costumes. Colas suggests that the plates could be by Alexander Orlowski on stylistic grounds. The plates are as follows: 1. The Body Guard. 2. Foot Guards. 3. Chasseur Guards. 4. Guard at Night. 5. Infantry. 6. A Sailor. 7. A Soldier of the Police. 8. A Cossack. Second issue; folio (37.5 x 28 cm); 8 hand-coloured engraved plates, engraved portrait frontispiece (dated 1814), title and dedication leaves, 'MN Bibliotheque militaire' blue stamp on front free endpaper, frontispiece just starting to come away from stub, otherwise internally a fine copy; later red cloth, flat spine lettered in gilt, a touch of rubbing to extremities. Colas 735; Lipperheide 1347.…

Aquatint engraving, coloured by hand, by James Godby and Henri Merke (watermark: 'J. Whatman 1805'). A fine image from 'Orme's Collection of British Field Sports': "the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries" (Schwerdt) Samuel Howitt, "genius, artist, sportsman", concentrated his considerable artistic talents on picturing scenes of horse-racing and hunting in all its aspects. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, Howitt was largely self-taught ,"although he must have been helped by his companions George Morland, Rowlandson and John Raphael Smith. Howitt's watercolours of hunting, shooting and racing have delightful spontaneity. An enthusiastic sportsman himself, he had sufficient family money to paint at first only for his own and his friends pleasure. However, this fortune was quickly dissipated and Howitt moved to London. [He made a living], partly by etching at which he was extremely skilled. As an artist he was prolific, more than 150 of his designs were published in The Sporting Magazine. He illustrated Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting, and other books, including Orme's Collection of British Field Sports. The light touch of his pen, the delicacy of his brushwork and his experience of field sports ensured all that he drew was animated and accurate." (Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp.132-133). Cf. Abbey Scenery 14; Lane British Sporting Prints p.133; Mellon British Sporting and Animal Drawings p.106; Siltzer p.164; cf. Schwerdt II, p.53; Siltzer p.164; cf.Tooley 273. …

Aquatint engraving, coloured by hand, by Thomas Vivares and Henri Merke. A fine image from 'Orme's Collection of British Field Sports': "the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries" (Schwerdt) Samuel Howitt, "genius, artist, sportsman", concentrated his considerable artistic talents on picturing scenes of horse-racing and hunting in all its aspects. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, Howitt was largely self-taught ,"although he must have been helped by his companions George Morland, Rowlandson and John Raphael Smith. Howitt's watercolours of hunting, shooting and racing have delightful spontaneity. An enthusiastic sportsman himself, he had sufficient family money to paint at first only for his own and his friends' pleasure. However, this fortune was quickly dissipated and Howitt moved to London. [He made a living], partly by etching at which he was extremely skilled. As an artist he was prolific. more than 150 of his designs were published in The Sporting Magazine. He illustrated Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting, and other books, including Orme's Collection of British Field Sports. The light touch of his pen, the delicacy of his brushwork and his experience of field sports ensured all that he drew was animated and accurate." (Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp.132-133). Cf. Abbey Scenery 14; Lane British Sporting Prints p.133; Mellon British Sporting and Animal Drawings p.106; Siltzer p.164; cf. Schwerdt II, p.53; Siltzer p.164; cf.Tooley 273.…

Aquatint with original hand-colouring, from 'A Picture of St Petersburgh, represented in a collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People . . .' some fading to colouring.

Aquatint with original hand-colouring, from 'A Picture of St Petersburgh, represented in a collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People . . .'.

Aquatint with original hand-colouring, from 'A Picture of St Petersburgh, represented in a collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People . . .'.

Aquatint with original hand-colouring, from 'A Picture of St Petersburgh, represented in a collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People . . .'.

Folio. 98pp + 40 hand coloured aquatint plates (complete). Recent half red morocco with gilt lettering, marbled paper boards and printed label. Some light marginal soiling or scattered foxing but a good copy with fresh, bright colouring of the plates. This is the issue without the date at the foot of the title but paper watermarked 1831.…