902 - Europe - Russia - Bardin, Etienne-Alexandre. Manual of Infantry, or Summary of All Regulations, Decrees, Customs, and Information Pertaining to This Branch of the Military. Second Edition. With 6 lithographed plates (5 of which are double-sheet size). Paris, Magimel, 1808. 2 folios, VI, 480 pp. 18 x 10 cm. Contemporary red French morocco binding with the signature “P. Lefebure" on the spine, gilt spine, cover with gold-embossed dedication "S. M. L'Empereur de Toutes les Russies" within wavy borders, gilt top and inner edges, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges (slightly rubbed and bumped).

Europe - Russia - Bardin, Etienne-Alexandre. Manual of Infantry, or Summary of All Regulations, Decrees, Customs, and Information Pertaining to This Branch of the Military. Second Edition. With 6 lithographed plates (5 of which are double-sheet size). Paris, Magimel, 1808. 2 folios, VI, 480 pp. 18 x 10 cm. Contemporary red French morocco binding with the signature “P. Lefebure" on the spine, gilt spine, cover with gold-embossed dedication "S. M. L'Empereur de Toutes les Russies" within wavy borders, gilt top and inner edges, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges (slightly rubbed and bumped). Second edition, first published in 1807. - A dedication copy of this work—usually published anonymously—to Tsar Alexander I, with a handwritten note by the author on the title page. Opposite, on the back of the half-title page, a dedication in the same hand: “Très respectueux hommage de l’auteur à S. M. L’Autocrate de toutes les Russies.” In the text, a few neat pen corrections. The bookbinder was the nephew of Jean-Claude Bozérian and took over his Paris studio in 1810. On the inside front cover, an unidentified engraved ex-libris with a scraped-off name. - Waterstains, heavy at the beginning. A beautiful provenance copy in a signed binding from the Restoration period.