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A la Haye, chez Isaac van der Klott, 1729-47. Large folio. (54 x 35 cm.). 3 uniform contemporary full mottled calf. Compartments richly gilt. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Some wear to top of spine and some cracking to leather along joints on volume I-II. Corners a bit bumped. Small stamp on title-pages. LXI,132 II,336(6),357,(1) pp. 3 engraved titlevignettes, 10 half-page engraved headpieces and 95 fine engraved plates (7 maps, 13 battle-scenes 73 plans and views, 2 portrait-plates (one as frontispiece in Vol. III)) mostly double-page (also triple-page or more). 8 tables, some folding. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper. Wide-margined. First edition. Simultaneouly published in French and Dutch. This fine and monumental work describes and depicts the wars of Prince Eugene de Savoye, the Duke of Marlborough and the Prince of Nassau, in Italy, Hungary, Germany, The Netherlands and against the Turcs. The engraved maps are engraved by Hubert Iallot, Covens & Mortier, Guillaume de L'Isle etc. The very detailled panoramas of war scenes, include the fine and famous series made by Jan Huchtenburg (Huchtenburg, Pinxit et excudit). Prince Eugene's almost invariable success on the battle-field raised the reputation of the Austrian army to a point which it never reached either before or since his day. War was with him a passion. Always on march, in camps, or on the field of battle during more than fifty years, and under the reigns of three emperors, he had scarcely passed 2 years together without fighting.Graesse II:445. Brunet II:881. Cohen-Ricci 337. There is no standard collation of this work (varies between 90 and 102 plates). Seller Inventory # 56915
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