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GESSNER, C[onrad] (1764-1826)

Lot 82
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 3 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 993124
Lot 82 | GESSNER, C[onrad] (1764-1826)
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
GESSNER, C[onrad] (1764-1826)

Military Evolutions. London: R. Ackermann [n.d. but 1799-1802].

First edition of a splendid and very large series of prints depicting the cavalry of the allied forces fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. The plates show Bavarian, Danish, English, French, Hessian, Austrian, Prussian, Russian and Saxon military. Beautifully coloured, the prints vary in their depictions of large-scale military operations, such as the ‘Danish Hussars charging the Enemy’ (plate 25), and jovial moments of respite between battles, as seen in ‘A Piquet of Saxon Dragoons in an Old Castle’ (plate 23). Bobins II, 352; Prideaux, p.377.



Large oblong folio (581 x 680mm). 29 (of 30) lithographic prints coloured by a contemporary hand (lacking plate 27, soiling heavier to margins, marginal tears to plates 1, 2, and 20 all repaired with tape on verso, creasing to plates 4 and 8, plate 10 heavily trimmed down, plates 15 and 16 with plate number crossed out and new number written in pencil, plate 20 with several marginal tears, large 57mm tear touching the image and large chip, all repaired with tape and paper infill to verso). Original brown wrappers bound in with pink titled label to front wrapper, leaves on mounts, 19th-century straight-grained roan-backed green paper covered boards, upper cover with gilt decorative border and lozenge-shaped red morocco label decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt spine (wrappers mounted on modern paper, pink paper label extremely worn with chip affecting title, extremities rubbed most heavily affecting spine, scratches to covers with covers strengthened, joint splitting at foot of spine).







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Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Printed books
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