Carte nouvelle du Duché de Brabant et partie de la Hollande.

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.