Exposition Retrospective Militaire: Les Anciennes Armees Francaises.  Thoumas, General.  Paris 1890, 2 Vols,. 218 & 208pp., illustrated.  From the Middle Ages, c.1400 to 1889, with heavy emphasis on French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, with 16 full page illustrations and hundreds of very fine B&W photogravure illustrations of weapons, accoutrements, portraits, flags and standards within text.  Bound in red 3/4 morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles, marbled boards and end papers, some leather cracking and slight edge wear but boards tight. French text on fine paper; some slight foxing, small folio, 14 1/4  x 11 1/2 inches,  t.e.g.  Ex library Baron de Noirmont; a beautiful set, very heavy.