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L'ISLE G. DE. Grand Theatre de la Guerres sur les Frontieres de France & Allemagne. Amsterdam: Reiner and Josua Ottens, [c.1740].
2° (520 x 350mm). Double-page engraved title, borders hand-coloured, and five hand-coloured engraved double page maps after de L'Isle showing the course of the Rhine and its hinterland from Cologne to Lake Constance, all on guards. Contemporary half calf, worn (sections of spine cracking).
A large wall map of the theatre of war along the Rhine, published by the Ottens family in Amsterdam after de L'Isle. This series is listed in the Ottens catalogue of c.1737-50. Koeman III p.87. This map forms one of a series of maps by Ottens on the wars around Europe and in America, Covens and Mortier in the 1730s, also issued maps of the Italian and Flanders campaigns. Included in this copy is an additional 6 double-page engraved maps of Russa comprising St. Petersburg and Cronstadt; the River Newa; the Ladoga Canal; a general map of Carelia; a regional map of St. Petersburg and Lake Ladoya; and a general map of Finland, all in Cyrilic.
2° (520 x 350mm). Double-page engraved title, borders hand-coloured, and five hand-coloured engraved double page maps after de L'Isle showing the course of the Rhine and its hinterland from Cologne to Lake Constance, all on guards. Contemporary half calf, worn (sections of spine cracking).
A large wall map of the theatre of war along the Rhine, published by the Ottens family in Amsterdam after de L'Isle. This series is listed in the Ottens catalogue of c.1737-50. Koeman III p.87. This map forms one of a series of maps by Ottens on the wars around Europe and in America, Covens and Mortier in the 1730s, also issued maps of the Italian and Flanders campaigns. Included in this copy is an additional 6 double-page engraved maps of Russa comprising St. Petersburg and Cronstadt; the River Newa; the Ladoga Canal; a general map of Carelia; a regional map of St. Petersburg and Lake Ladoya; and a general map of Finland, all in Cyrilic.
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