[FUNCK & DILLENS]

Plans et journaux des sieges de la derniere guerre de Flandres, rassemblés par deux capitaines etrangers au service de France Strasbourg Melchior Pauschinger 1750 In-4°, [8] + 113 pp. Ill. with a folding frontispiece, an engraved plan and 24 plans of besieged cities during the years 1744-1748. These are Menin, Ypres, La Knoque, Furnes, Tournai, Oudenarde, Dendermonde, Ostend, Nieuport, Ath, Brussels, Antwerp, Mons, St.-Guilain, Charleroy, Namur, L'Ecluse, Sas de Gand, Philipine, Hulst, Axel, Berg-op-zoom, Lillo, Mastrick. These 25 plans are folded and out of text and have some watercolor highlights. The engravings are by Weiss, Striedbeck, Lattre, Fonbonne, Deuland a.o. Nice headers (allegorical woodcuts, by Isnard) and culs-de-lampe. Beautiful contemporary binding in full calf, gilt fillet around the boards, marbled endpapers, red edges Ex libris heraldic of Mr. le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand