Le Grand Teatre De La Guerre En Italie Dresse Sur Les Memoires des plus Habiles Ingenieurs suivans les Armees.
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier. Notes: 3 (of 4) sheets map of northern Italy. Each map measure 490 x 590 mm. With an elaborate large cartouche.
Pierre Mortier (1661-1711) was a Dutch publisher of atlases as well as terrestrial and marine maps. The grandson of religious refugees from France who settled in Leiden around 1625, Mortier grew up in Amsterdam, which at the time was the center of international publishing business. As a young man, he spent several years in Paris, where he discovered French maps and publishers. Returning to Amsterdam around 1685, he established himself as a publisher of high quality maps, including reissues of the works of Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, Nicolas Sanson, and other great French cartographers. In c.1705, Mortier produced this plan of military attack for Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), main commander of the forces of the Holy Roman Empire in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-14). The war was a struggle for the dominance of Europe, it oppose France of Louis XIV against a coalition including England, Holland and the Holy Roman Empire. Much of the first fighting took place in northern Italy. Mortier's work includes three maps of Italy (plates 1-3) showing the different areas of conflict. The map at the top contains pictorial engravings of Eugene conducting military operations in the Alps and the capture of Marshal François de Neufville de Villeroy, in the night of January 31, 1702 to February 1, 1702. Later he created a forth map , not numbered ,of Germany (Bavaria) and Austria, which not present here., Size : 490x590 (mm), 19.29x23.23 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Europe Italy;. Very Good. Item #M10182
Notes: 3 (of 4) sheets map of northern Italy. Each map measure 490 x 590 mm. With an elaborate large cartouche.
Pierre Mortier (1661-1711) was a Dutch publisher of atlases as well as terrestrial and marine maps. The grandson of religious refugees from France who settled in Leiden around 1625, Mortier grew up in Amsterdam, which at the time was the center of international publishing business. As a young man, he spent several years in Paris, where he discovered French maps and publishers. Returning to Amsterdam around 1685, he established himself as a publisher of high quality maps, including reissues of the works of Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, Nicolas Sanson, and other great French cartographers. In c.1705, Mortier produced this plan of military attack for Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), main commander of the forces of the Holy Roman Empire in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-14). The war was a struggle for the dominance of Europe, it oppose France of Louis XIV against a coalition including England, Holland and the Holy Roman Empire. Much of the first fighting took place in northern Italy. Mortier's work includes three maps of Italy (plates 1-3) showing the different areas of conflict. The map at the top contains pictorial engravings of Eugene conducting military operations in the Alps and the capture of Marshal François de Neufville de Villeroy, in the night of January 31, 1702 to February 1, 1702. Later he created a forth map , not numbered ,of Germany (Bavaria) and Austria, which not present here., Size : 490x590 (mm), 19.29x23.23 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Europe Italy;.
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