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MANSION, André Léon Larue (1785-1834)

Lot 106
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 6 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 992879
Lot 106 | MANSION, André Léon Larue (1785-1834)
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
MANSION, André Léon Larue (1785-1834)

[Costume of the Royal Navy and Marines]. London: Andrews & Co., [c. 1831-1833].

A rare suite of lithographs prepared during the reign of the 'Sailor King', William IV (1830-1837), celebrating naval shipa and marine uniforms. Figures range from captains to ship's physicians, majority situated in quayside background with ships. The first plate, dedicated to the Queen, depicts the dashing William IV, who had served in the Royal Navy in his youth and enjoyed the title of Lord High Admiral from 1827.



No copies recorded on RBH; just one institutional library copy traced, in the Hay Library at Brown University, which contains a lithographed title-page not called for by Colas (and absent here). Bobins V, 1584. Colas 1966 ("suite très rare complete," calling for plates numbered 1-16). Not in Abbey or Tooley.



Folio (444 x 313mm). 16 lithographs coloured by a contemporary hand, comprising unnumbered dedicatory plate of William IV and 15 numbered plates, heightened with gum Arabic and each plate signed in the lower margins 'L. Mansion & St. Eschauzier inv. & del./ Printed by Lefevre & Co. / Coloured by C. H. Martin', plates interleaved with blanks (occasional light spotting and finger-soiling, pencil markings either side of plate 1's caption, crease marks across opening page). Contemporary purple half calf over marbled boards (rebacked and recornered).





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