Histoire militaire du prince Eugene de Savoye, du prince et duc de Marlborough, et du prince de Nassau-Frise. Où l'on trouve un détail des principales actions de la dernière guerre & des batailles et sièges commandez par ces trois généraux.

3 vols, large folio: [2-61]-132, [4]-336, [8]-357-[1] pp.; 3 engraved title vignettes, 99 pls (32-58-9) of which 23 large folding pls (internally fine and clean, printed on good paper, wide-margined).

Cont. full calf, spine on raised bands (rubbed and us.).

Large paper copy of the "Memoirs of the lives and conduct" of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), John Churchill, the first duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), and John William Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau (1687-1711). This monumental work illustrated with magnificent battle scenes by Jan Huchtenburgh, as well as with maps, plans and views by Hubert Jaillot, Covens & Mortier, Guillaume de L'Isle e.g., describes the war exploits and campaigns in Italy, Germany and The Netherlands during the War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714) and in the Banat of Temeswar (Romania) and Serbia during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18. Prince Eugene of Savoy, general of the Imperial Army, was not only one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, but also was Governor-General of the Southern Netherlands in his later life, from 1721 onwards. Rejected by Louis XIV for service in the French army, Eugene transferred his loyalty to the Habsburg Monarchy where his almost invariable success on the battlefield earned him Europe-wide fame. This copy includes his portrait on a double-page engr., a three-portrait plate, a large panoramic view showing the Prussian troops bombarding the city of Guelders in 1703, 23 folding plates of which mostly maps of Flanders, Brabant, Lombardy, Piemont, Turin, Bavaria e.g., but also including a bird's-eye view of Carmagnola, 76 fine engr. pls mostly double-page and 5 orders of battle. Ref. Brunet II:881. - Cohen-Ricci 337. There is no standard collation of this work. Prov. "AW" (not in Lugt).