Author: FUNCK Jakob - von ILLENGEN ( ) :
Title: Plans et Journaux des Sièges de la Dernière Guerre de Flandres rassemblés par Deux Capitaines étrangers au service de France.
Description: .: Strasbourg et se vend à La Haye, chez Pierre Gosse Junior, 1750, in-4°, 247 x 190 mm, (8) nn pp + 113 pp + (1)(avis au relieur) + 25 folding plans (numbered 0, 1-24) , bound in modern half leather, marbled boards, title label on raised spine. Fine complete copy of a military report on the sieges of towns and fortifications in the Southern Low Countries by the armies of France during the war of the Austrian Succession (1740 - 1748). The besieged fortifications are Menen , Ieper ( Ypres ) , Knokke , Veurne , Tournai , Oudenaarde , Dendermonde , Oostende , Nieuwpoort , Ath , Brussel , Antwerpen, Mons, Saint-Guislain , Charleroi , Namur , Sluis , Sas van Gent , Philipine , Hulst , Axel , Bergen op Zoom , Lillo and Maastricht. For each of these cities there is a detailed map of the fortifications and yellow coloured indications how the besiegers proceeded to attack. Text in French.. .

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