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DU BOIS. Camps topographiques de la campagne de MDCCLVII, en Westphalie :, commencée par Mr. le Maréchal d'Estrées, continuée par Mr. le Duc de Richelieu, & finie par Mgr. le Comte de Clermont : avec le Journal de ses opérations, & quelques autres morceaux fort curieux [...] Collection, dont tous les plans ont été gravés sous les yeux de l'auteur, & sus [sic] la direction du Sr. Van der Schley, élève distingué du célèbre Picart le Romain. The Hague, widow Van Duren, 1760. In-4 oblong (20 x 27 cm), [32] ff. of text in a handsome garland frame, 49 maps numbered 1-56 (some plates combine several numbers), and 4 folding plates. Marbled fawn calf, smooth ornate spine, arms at foot, red title page, red pages (period binding). Restorations to corners and headpieces. Unique and uncommon edition of this very interesting collection of plans by an engineer-geographer attached to the Count of Maillebois during the Hanover campaign of 1757-58, designed to take his German Electorate from the King of England. It is complete with all the parts described on f. [2] of the warning, i.e. 56 plans grouped on 49 leaves and 4 additional plates. A copy with the arms on the spine of the Marquis Malvin de Montazet, probably Charles (1739-1825). (O.H.R. 1511 (for those of the archbishop of Lyon, his uncle)). Bookplate from the library of the Comte de Bourqueney.

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DU BOIS. Camps topographiques de la campagne de MDCCLVII, en Westphalie :, commencée par Mr. le Maréchal d'Estrées, continuée par Mr. le Duc de Richelieu, & finie par Mgr. le Comte de Clermont : avec le Journal de ses opérations, & quelques autres morceaux fort curieux [...] Collection, dont tous les plans ont été gravés sous les yeux de l'auteur, & sus [sic] la direction du Sr. Van der Schley, élève distingué du célèbre Picart le Romain. The Hague, widow Van Duren, 1760. In-4 oblong (20 x 27 cm), [32] ff. of text in a handsome garland frame, 49 maps numbered 1-56 (some plates combine several numbers), and 4 folding plates. Marbled fawn calf, smooth ornate spine, arms at foot, red title page, red pages (period binding). Restorations to corners and headpieces. Unique and uncommon edition of this very interesting collection of plans by an engineer-geographer attached to the Count of Maillebois during the Hanover campaign of 1757-58, designed to take his German Electorate from the King of England. It is complete with all the parts described on f. [2] of the warning, i.e. 56 plans grouped on 49 leaves and 4 additional plates. A copy with the arms on the spine of the Marquis Malvin de Montazet, probably Charles (1739-1825). (O.H.R. 1511 (for those of the archbishop of Lyon, his uncle)). Bookplate from the library of the Comte de Bourqueney.

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