General Accounts Presented by the Minister of State for War for the Fiscal Year 1840. Paris, Royal Printing Office, March 1842. Quarto, edition containing numerous tables of financial statements, expenditures, and observations. Contemporary full red morocco binding, covers adorned with a frieze, gilt fillets, and gilt tortilles framing the design, a large fleur-de-lis, and cold-stamped interior framing; smooth, decorated spine; all edges gilt (small hole on the half-title page, a few scratches). Ex-libris of Jacques Chastenet. Appraiser: Mr. Nicolas ASVISIO