11 - DELISLE. DE FER. NOLIN. DUVAL.

DELISLE. DE FER. NOLIN. DUVAL. [Compiled atlas—18th century]. (Paris, 1700–1750). Folio, 54 maps and plans, including 7 manuscripts. Vellum decorated with splotches of ink splattered during the period (binding worn with missing sections; some maps are loose; others are faded and show tears, creases, and missing sections). An interesting collection of 54 maps and plans, including 47 copper engravings in black and 7 hand-drawn maps, primarily devoted to France and Europe during the first half of the 18th century. The 7 hand-drawn documents include, notably, a map of the Battle of Ramillies fought on May 23, 1706, with Condé’s camp printed on the reverse, a map of the army’s disposition at the camp of Soignies on May 26, 1706, a hand-drawn and watercolor map of the lines established by Marshal de Villeroy in September 1704 along the Lauter River to protect his army during the Allied siege of Landau, a map of the town and citadel of Cambron in Flanders, as well as several maps of fortifications. The printed section includes, notably, the eastern and western parts of Guillaume Delisle’s *Theatrum historicum*, two celestial hemispheres by Nicolas de Fer, an armillary sphere engraved by Starckman, as well as several maps of France and its regions by Nicolas de Fer, Jaillot, and Liébaux, including the Generalité d’Orléans, a map of Paris by F. Bailleux the Younger (1722), the Kingdom of France, the Île-de-France, and the borders of France and Germany. The collection also includes maps of Germany, Bavaria, Austria, the Kingdom of Bohemia, Denmark, Poland, the State of Milan, Catalonia, Spain, and Portugal, the British Isles, the Ottoman Empire, and the Black Sea region, by Nolin, De Fer, Du Val, and other cartographers. In addition, there is a plan of Jerusalem, a map of the Holy Land by De La Rue, as well as several documents relating to European conflicts, including De Fer’s *Map for Understanding the New War in Italy* (1702).