Army List--Queen Caroline.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Ancienneté der herren officier sowol Infanterie, Cavallerie als auch Artillerie...von Sr.: Königl. Majestaet von Gross Britannien Teutschen Trouppen 1740 Hannover
paper and ink

manuscript, c.150 unnumbered pages, 16mo (100 x 70mm), incorporating 33 coloured illustrations of regimental uniforms, signed on the title by the writer ("Rohde"), some annotations in other hands, edges gilt, painted vellum gilt incorporating the cipher of Queen Caroline on the upper cover, Hannover, 1740 and later, scuffed

Catalogue Note

A highly attractive pocket army list whose binding incorporates the cipher of Queen Caroline (1683-1737), George II's consort. The date of the manuscript (1740) is three years after the Queen's death, suggesting that either an unused notebook with the Queen's cipher was employed by the scribe, or that the work was inserted into a reused binding.