Plans of Metz, Phalsbourg, Toul and Nancy, 1726

Plans of the defensive works around the cities of Metz, Phalsbourg, Toul and Nancy. Plate no. 149 in part VII of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne from 1726, this first part with 238 hand-numbered plates of famous strong cities and fortresses in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. For the most part, these plates are copied from the anonymous French plates of famous strong cities and fortresses: in Les forces de l'Europe and in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) in the context of the Nine Years' War. Titles and inscriptions in French.