Nouveau théâtre de la guerre aux Pays-Bas, ou Cartes très détaillées du Duché de Brabant et partie de la Hollande [...].

4to: engr. title, 24 maps (marg. damp stain on map 23 (Hasselt etc.); occ. spotting).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine (starting to warp, some min. soiling).

A conveniently portable theatre-of-war atlas published for officers toward the end of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) with a general map and 24 numbered detailed maps, undated and attributed to J. Covens and C. Mortier. All particular maps have hand-coloured details. According to the map catalogue of P. Gosse Junior ("La nouvelle bigarure", The Hague), the atlas was issued by Guillaume Dheulland in Paris in 1747, and could be assembled in different forms: to form a large wall map, to form an atlas of 15 maps, or, as in our copy, to bind them in 4to. According to Koeman, it was an anonymous publication and a mutual undertaking as well. The map was indeed sold by 11 book dealers in Lille, Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Cologne, Berlin, Nuremberg, Strasbourg and Paris, one of these was George Fricx, nephew of Eugène Henri Fricx (1644-1730).
Ref. Koeman C&M 19. - La nouvelle bigarure 15 (1754), 165.
Prov. Mod. bookpl.