Fricx, Eugene Henri (1644-1730).

2 volumes, folio (485 x 315mm.), [2]; [2]pp., illustration: both volumes with letterpress list of contents within engraved allegorical border, volume 1 with 77 engraved maps and plans, many double-page or folding, 2 not called for in the contents, volume 2 with 71 engraved maps and plans, many double-page or folding, some listed in the contents, others inserted, a few coloured, also including 2 manuscript orders of battles and an extract from the London Evening Post (1745), both volumes with a manuscript index in an English hand; volume 2 with the title-page annotated in English and the verso of the maps annotated in English or French, binding: contemporary russia, some wear or areas of loss to some of the charts, spines dry

A composite collection of military and other plans and maps, based upon Fricx. Volume 2 has been extra-illustrated by an early owner or owners, one certainly English, inserting a series of military maps by Anna Beek, in contemporary hand colour, and a number of rare English broadsheet battle plans, including plans of the battle of Preston, from the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 by Abel Boyer and by one ‘P.M.’, this latter engraved by Henry Hulsberg, and Seton’s plan of the battle of Prestonpans, 1745, from the Third Jacobite Rebellion (the ’45), with accompanying account from the London Evening Post; the collection also includes Moll’s composite sheet of Minorca and Gibraltar, issued shortly after their capture in 1708 and 1704 respectively, four plans of Gibraltar depicting the siege of 1728, three smaller ones by Overton and Hoole, an anonymous mapmaker and by Herman Moll, and a large double-page map by Moll, David Mortier’s plan of the attack on Cadiz in 1702, an anonymous plan of Philipsburg, with letterpress text bearing the imprint of James Roberts, John Senex and others, dated 1734, Philip Overton’s plan of Dantzig (c. 1734), with the imprint trimmed off, the second state of David Mortier’s plan of Barcelona (1705), apparently lacking the running title, John Armstrong’s plan of Dunkirk, 1712, an anonymous English plan of the battle of Eckeren (1716) and David Mortier’s large folding plan of the battle of Blenheim with (bound separately) letterpress text describing the battle with the imprint of Henry Overton, dated 1709.

Unfortunately, several of the English plans have been trimmed to the engraved area to fit the format, but the majority seem to be unrecorded, and thus represent an extraordinarily fortunate survival.

For a description of the Dutch contents see the next lot.