Ventes live - Lot 870
[Militaria - Brabant - Flanders]
Journal historique de la dernière campagne de l'armée du roi, en 1746. Ouvrage enrichi de plans, & d'une carte du Brabant, pour l'intelligence de ses positions.
The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1747
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Description du lot
8vo: xv-[1 bl.]-235-[1 bl.] pp. (without the rare errata leaf [2H]1, some minor spotting).
Contemp. marbled calf (corners bumped), gilt flat spine (joints splitting, head & tail def.), red edges. Good copy.
Rare first edition, containing 3 engr. folding maps (Brabant, battle of Tongeren and battle of Rocoux) and 4 printed folding tables (battle formations). The work is a campaign journal of Maurice, Count of Saxony and Marshal of France (Goslar 1696-1750 Château de Chambord), from May to October 1746, with details on the movements in Brabant (Brussels, Dendermonde, Tienen, Leuven, Mechelen, Aarschot, ...), de Kempen (Lier, Turnhout, Grobbendonk, ...) and the Namur region (siege of Namur, with statistics on wounded and dead).
Ref. Barbier II:1033. - Conlon 47:484. - STCN (2, i.a. BL).
Joined: Idem - Relation de la campagne en Brabant et en Flandres de l'an M. DCC. XLVI [- M. DCC. XLVII]. The Hague, F.H. Scheurleer, 1748. 2 vol., 8vo: 175-[1], 225-[1] pp. (some light spotting). Contemp. calf (head def. at 2nd vol.). With 5 (4, 1) printed folding tables and 4 engr. folding maps (Tongeren, Rocoux; Lawfeld (tear), Bergen op Zoom). Explication leaf for the Bergen op Zoom map bound after p. 6. Ref. STCN. Prov. Ms. entry on titles erased. (3 vol.)