[UNIFORMOLOGIE] Collectif / Commandant Eugène Louis BUCQUOY - Fanfares et musiques des troupes à cheval (Fanfares and music of mounted troops) A la librairie militaire Cart à Paris, 1943-1948 - First edition of this extremely rare collective work featuring 52 watercolor plates depicting military costumes, published by a group of artists and collectors under the direction of Commandant Bucquoy. Complete with all 6 series and all plates under serpents, hors texte, by Begnini, Bucquoy, Feist, Hilpert, Giffard, Leliepvre, Pierre Albert Leroux, Malespina, Lucien Rousselot, Maurice Toussaint. One of 500 numbered copies, the only edition, the first cover has been placed at the head of the book, the following covers have all been bound in-fine for aesthetic and continuity reasons. The interior is in excellent condition, free of foxing. Beautiful period binding in blue half-chagrin, 5-rib spine, very slight rubbing, not serious. A superb copy. Large in-4, 55pp + 1 + 52 plates.