The Russian Army 1805 - 15.
Marcel Gayda and André Krijitsky, L'Armée Russe sous le Tsar Alexandre 1er de 1805 - 1815. Paris 1955. Only the plates No. 12-25 of a single copy (No. 247), privately hand-colored in excellent quality, are published here.
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Austrian Uniforms in Lithographs by F. Gerasch
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Italian Uniforms Through the Ages - after drawings by Italo Cenni
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