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GRASSET de SAINT-SAUVEUR (Jacques)
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GRASSET de SAINT-SAUVEUR (Jacques)
Les Fastes du peuple français, or Tableaux raisonnés of all the heroic and civic actions of the French soldier and citizen. Paris, Deroy, 1796, Year 4 of the French Republic. In-4, fawn half-basane with small vellum corners, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding).
Collection of engravings representing the feats of arms and acts of bravery of soldiers and citizens during the Revolution and the Consulate, engraved in aquatint under the direction of Grasset de Saint-Sauveur after drawings by Labrousse, each engraving being accompanied by an explanatory note of 2
or 3 pages.
Copy containing a frontispiece and 122 plates, 4 of which are in colour: the one illustrating the heroic act of General Thomas Alexandre Dumas, father of the author of the Three Musketeers, is noteworthy: this coloured citizen, but mulatto and mixed race, born in Santo Domingo in 1762, alone repelled, on 4 Germinal Year V, a squadron of Austrian cavalry on the Klausen Bridge in Tyrol, killing three horsemen and wounding
eight others.
Cohen, col. 452, indicates that the most complete copy he saw was 157
plates.
Engraved ex-libris armorial bookplates of Anglo-Saxon origin and engraved ex-libris Robert de
Billy.
Copy having 8 plates with their duplicate notices. The notice relating to the action of the canonnier François Martin is missing, as well as the plates of 4 other notices. Used binding.
Les Fastes du peuple français, or Tableaux raisonnés of all the heroic and civic actions of the French soldier and citizen. Paris, Deroy, 1796, Year 4 of the French Republic. In-4, fawn half-basane with small vellum corners, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding).
Collection of engravings representing the feats of arms and acts of bravery of soldiers and citizens during the Revolution and the Consulate, engraved in aquatint under the direction of Grasset de Saint-Sauveur after drawings by Labrousse, each engraving being accompanied by an explanatory note of 2
or 3 pages.
Copy containing a frontispiece and 122 plates, 4 of which are in colour: the one illustrating the heroic act of General Thomas Alexandre Dumas, father of the author of the Three Musketeers, is noteworthy: this coloured citizen, but mulatto and mixed race, born in Santo Domingo in 1762, alone repelled, on 4 Germinal Year V, a squadron of Austrian cavalry on the Klausen Bridge in Tyrol, killing three horsemen and wounding
eight others.
Cohen, col. 452, indicates that the most complete copy he saw was 157
plates.
Engraved ex-libris armorial bookplates of Anglo-Saxon origin and engraved ex-libris Robert de
Billy.
Copy having 8 plates with their duplicate notices. The notice relating to the action of the canonnier François Martin is missing, as well as the plates of 4 other notices. Used binding.