Le Theatre [sic] de la guerre dans la Haute et Basse Allemagne contenant la carte generale d'Allemagne et les cartes de tous les etats et provinces exposées aux mouvements des troupes avec les plans des villes fortes où il y a eû actions et où il peut y en avoir. Entre autres, le plan et siege de Landau, ceux de Keyserswert, de Vanloo, de Maestricht &c.

Folio: title-18 maps, on guards, hand-coloured in outline (damp stains, pl. 8 Haut-Rhin with sm. part pasted).

Contemp. marbled wrapper.

Very rare atlas with an original composition, rarely available for sale, reporting on the very first battles in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). With 18 engr. maps, incl. a general map and regional maps of Germany, as well as siege plans of the fortified towns Frankfurt, Kaiserswerth, Landau and Heilbronn. Although the other town maps mentioned by Pastoureau or in the title are missing, this copy has 6 add. pl., incl. 2 maps of Swabia, "Le royaume de Bohème", "L'Archiduché d'Autriche divisée en 8 quartier" (2 pl.) and "Le comté de Tirol". In fact, Pastoureau mentions 27 maps, but 2 of the rare copies in institutional libraries include 17 (Archivio storico civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana) and 20 (Milan, Ambrosiana) maps illustrating the diverse, presumably on demand, nature of the work. Many of Nolin's maps were engraved after work by J.-N. de Tralage, known as Sr de Tillemon, after J. Reichelt and V. Coronelli. The maps of Bavaria and Bohemia are dated 1703, and Bavaria was jointly published with J. Leonard in Brussels.
Ref. Pastoureau, Nolin III. - Opac (Italy).