May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384
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Sale 2384 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MANUSCRIPT MAPS & DRAWINGS.) FESTUGIÈRE. 1856-1858. [Cover title.] 27 ink drawings and diagrams, some double-page, some enhanced with watercolor, comprising military subjects: fortresses, elementary cartography, etc. along with a further romantic watercolor portrait mounted on first blank. Folio, 1/4 brown roan over maroon paper boards, red morocco gilt-lettered cover label, moderately worn; internally quite nice but for blind stamps and lightly oxidized library ink stamps on the drawings. [France, late 1850s]
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Presumably a compilation of assignments completed by a trainee officer, surveyor, or engineer at one of France's military institutes.