Lot 952
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Table des cartes des Pays-Bas et des frontières de France, avec un recueil des plans des villes, sièges et batailles données entre les hauts alliés et la France.
€ 800 / 1.200
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Lot description
Brussels, E.F. Fricx, 1712
Large folio: engr. title, 52 (of 73) pl., various sizes (some water stains, 2 pl. detached, sl. us.).
Contemp. calf covers (def., soiled, sm. parts and spine missing).
Interesting, but incomplete copy of Fricx' atlas which was published in the same year that he finished his topographical map of the Southern Netherlands in 24 sheets. 18 (of 24) pl. of this map constitute the 1st part of this volume, the 2nd part has 34 (of 49) plans of towns, fortresses, sieges, and battlefields in Ostend, Ghent, Mons, Douai, Brussels etc. Most of the plates are engraved by Jacob Harrewyn.
Ref. Koeman Fri 1.
Prov. Benoit Insulensis (bookpl.).