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La Belgique militaire, par quelques Officiers de l'Armée. [With plates, including portraits and maps

1835 · 31 pictures

A French-language military history of Belgium compiled by serving army officers and published in 1835, aimed at officers and patriotic readers of the new Belgian kingdom. The plates are soft-pencil lithographic bust portraits of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century commanders in starched ruffs, chased armour and collars of chivalric orders, with battle maps alongside; useful for period costume detail, three-quarter head studies and shaded tonal drawing.

British Library · HMNTS 9414.e.4. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)