THOUMAS. General. Les Anciennes armées françaises. Retrospective military exhibition of the Ministry of War in 1889. Paris, France. Laumette. 1890. 2 volumes, large, in-4, modern green half-maroquin with corners, spines spines. This work, illustrated with 18 plates, was published on the initiative of the organizers of the Exposition Universal Exhibition to "make known to current generations what the French army was like from its origins to the eve of the 1870 war". An additional plate is included. Some brown spots.