D'ILLENS & & FUNCK

Plans et Journaux des Sieges de la Derniere Guerre de Flandres,

rassemblés par Deux Capitaines Etrangers au Service de France. 4to. Folding map frontispiece with touches of hand-colouring and twenty-four similar plates, superb engraved head- and tail-pieces. Some browning, that to plate 13 quite heavy, front hinge a little loose, but otherwise a splendid crisp copy, unopened in contemporary marbled wraps, slightly rubbed. [viii], 112pp. Melchior Pauschinger, Strasburg, 1750.

£850.00

Barbier, 14316, not in Jähns.

Account of the sieges of the War of the Austrian Succession by two participants, illustrated with detailed plans of fortifications. Apparently not in the BL, OCLC locates ten copies in American libraries and three in European institutions. A handsome & entirely unsophisticated copy.

Stock No.
89817