Husson, Pieter.

Folio (500 x 315mm.), letterpress title printed in black and red, 49 engraved map-sheets, numbered to 50 (Lyonnois numbered twice) as per the manuscript list on the front free-endpaper in a contemporary English hand, [Koeman II Huss 1], a remboitage in contemporary Dutch vellum, 3 maps cropped or repaired, the maps laid on archival tissue, re-guarded

Edward Pinkett, late eighteenth-century inscription on endpaper; Royal Historical Society, inkstamp on flyleaf

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An interesting composite atlas, clearly assembled to order for a British client, dating from the latter part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713). From 1709 the full-scale war had petered out as Britain, who underpinned the Grand Alliance, lost the political will to wage further war.

The atlas begins with the Blaeu/Valk world map on a polar projection and Visscher’s set of maps of the continents; thereafter the maps relate to the theatres of the war.

The atlas is significant for containing an important sequence of maps and plans by the Dutch publisher Anna Beek, including the Battle of Wynendale, with letterpress text dated 1708, and plans of Barcelona, Ulm, Dendermonde, Ghent and Douai. As these were sold separately, they are now rare.

Other notable inclusions are van der Plaat's rare plan of Turin; Edward Castle and David Mortier’s plan of Gibraltar (1705) and Carel Allard’s map of southern Portugal (sheet 12) with accompanying insets designed to be pasted outside the lower border (sheet 13). The general map of the Mediterranean is formed of the two southern sheets of a wall-map of Europe also by Allard, with a paste-over title to convert it to the new purpose.