Live auction - Lot 557
[Atlas - Belgium - Netherlands]
Carte nouvelle du Duché de Brabant et partie de la Hollande.
Paris, G. Dheulland, [1747]
Hammer price: €
180
€ 250 / 350
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Lot description
4to: 25 pl., borders old hand-coloured (some foldings worn and partly split, dampstained, wormhole).
Contemp. calf, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands (lower joint defective, tr. of use).
Rare map of Brabant, here presented as a portable theatre-of-war atlas, published for French officers toward the end of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), incl. 1 general map and 24 "Cartes particulières". According to the Mercure de France (June 1748), this atlas was presented to King Louis XV in 1747.
Ref. Phillips (Atlases) 4050. - Tooley 367. - Opac KBR.