[Extremely rare series of brightly coloured plates] Uniformen van de Gardes d'Honneur,

van de onderscheiden corpsen in zeven départementen van Holland; opgericht tot de ontfangst van Zijne Majesteit den Keizer en Koning. Uniformes des gardes d'honneur des différens corps dans les sept départemens de la Hollande (...). Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, n.d. (1811), with letterpress title page and 12 splendidly handcoloured, stipple-engraved/ aquatint plates each with the original protective sheet and each with 3 descriptive letterpress pages (e.g. with lists of names of serving guardsmen), later boards with mounted original wrapper, folio (40.5 x 30.5 cm), in modern, gilt-lettered halfmorocco dropback box.

Good copy. Trifle sunned/ foxed; water stain to blank lower corner at spine. Corners of wrapper sl. dam. Landwehr, Books w. Col. Plates, 457. "Not only visually attractive but also extremely rare"(Legermuseum, Boek van de Maand, oktober 2011); "l'original est de la plus grande rareté" (Colas 2937, note, facsimile 1904). Splendidly coloured copy of the very rare first and only edition (facsimiles appeared in 1904 and 1984).