ARTILLERY - Etat général de Messieurs les officiers... Lot 8

[ARTILLERY] - Etat général de Messieurs les officiers du corps-royal d'artillerie de France. S.l., 1775, in-16, [52] ff. n. ch, a few handwritten corrections in ink or wood pencil (one dating from the Revolution, f. [20v]), a fully interleaved copy (but without annotations on the interleaved ff.), old-red morocco, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, framed with garland and double gilt fillet on the boards with corner fleurons, gilt garland on the edges, blue edges (period binding). A fine copy. This small state of the artillery seems to be very rare indeed. It is divided into two parts: a list by descending ranks; a distribution of officers according to their assignment in 1775. No copy reported to the CCF. Absent from Saffroy (both the nobiliary bibliography and that of the almanacs and states).