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Auction 122, Lot 499

"[Lot of 2] Plan du Chateau de Dinant [on sheet with] Plan de la Ville de Maestricht [and] Plan de la Ville et Chasteau de Bouillon [and] Plan de la Ville et Citadelle de Mezieres [with] Batterie", Mortier, Pierre

Subject: Belgium, Netherlands and France

Period: 1700 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
12.8 x 9 inches
32.5 x 22.9 cm
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The first sheet has small, but detailed plans of four fortified towns; Dinant, Maastricht, Bouillon and Mezieres, now known as Charleville- Mézières. Each plan is titled within a drape-style cartouche, and the top two have informative lettered keys. The second page illustrates a typical artillery battery with all its operations enumerated.

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Condition: A

Nice clean sheets with a repagination by hand on the second sheet.

Estimate: $150 - $200

Sold for: $75

Closed on 12/5/2007

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