Italian military costume | "Maneggio d'Arma alla maniera Prussiana", 1786, original watercolours

Italian Military Costume

"Maneggio d'Arma alla maniera Prussiana per uso del Battaglione de Soldati in luogo de Corsi". Rome: 1786

4to (296 x 229mm.), 73 watercolour drawings, with the title-page signed B.V.E. and Antonio Grilloni, contemporary brown calf

A military treatise showing the adoption of Prussian military garb by the Italian army, by B.V.E. and Antonio Grilloni dated 26th June 1786.

PROVENANCE:

Sir Charles Abney Hastings, 2nd Bart (1792-1858), bookplate; from the Willesley Hall collection