Le Theatre De La Guerre, Dans Les Pays-Bas, Ou Representation Des Principales Villes qui sont en Flandres (...) Part I-II.

Name: Le Theatre De La Guerre, Dans Les Pays-Bas, Ou Representation Des Principales Villes qui sont en Flandres (...) Part I-II.
Author: Fer, Nicolas de (1646-1720).

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[Atlases. Low Countries]. Fer, Nicolas de (1646-1720). Le Theatre De La Guerre, Dans Les Pays-Bas, Ou Representation Des Principales Villes qui sont en Flandres, Hainaut, Brabant, &c. Avec Leurs Fortifications; Dessignees par les meilleurs Ingenieurs de ce temps (...). Premier - Deuxieme Volume. [Part I - II, complete]. “A Paris, Chez l’Auteur (...)" [= Amsterdam, P. Mortier?], 1696. 1st edition, 2 parts in 1 vol. comprising: 2 letterpress title-leaves, 1 letterpress index-leaf and resp. 26 & 27 engraved maps/ (fortification) plans (of which 1 fold.), contemporary calf with gilt ribbed spine, oblong small folio (ca. 29 x 35,5 cm.).

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= Cf. Koeman (Atlantes Neerlandici) III, p.17 (note). Rare first edition (printed with wide margins) of a late 17th-cent. military atlas of mainly the Southern Netherlands by the French cartographer Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) comprising 10 maps (probably engraved by the Flemish print-maker Pieter van den Keere (1571-ca. 1646), all dated “1697” in the plate) & 43 (fortification) plans designed by i.a. the French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) depicting i.a. Amsterdam, Anvers (Antwerp), Arras, Bruxelles (Brussels), Charleroi, Dendermonde, Dinant, Dunkirk, Gand (Ghent), Gravelines, Huy, Liège, Lille, Luxembourg, Maastricht, Malines, Mons, Naarden, Namen, Nieuwpoort, Oostende, Tournay, Valenciennes and Ypres.
Binding partly rubbed/ worn and upper joint split; small portion of backstrip missing at foot; small old owner’s stamp on first title; upper blank margin of first title-leaf sl. frayed/ torn; first free endpaper cut short; partly waterstained/ slightly moulded in inner blank margin. The maps generally in a very acceptable interior condition.

Author Fer, Nicolas de (1646-1720).

Date 1696

Binding contemporary calf with gilt ribbed spine, oblong small folio

Publisher Chez l’Auteur (...)" [= Amsterdam, P. Mortier?]

Condition Binding partly rubbed/ worn and upper joint split; various imperfections (see below)

Pages 2 titles, index and 26 & 27 engr. maps/ plans

Price: £2400.00

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