Map of Fort Carlsburg, 1726

Map of Fort Carlsburg, built by the Swedes at the mouth of the Geeste in the Weser, now part of the German city of Bremerhaven. Plate no. 210 in part IX 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 fortifications in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from anonymous French plates of famous strong cities and fortifications: 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. Title and inscriptions in French. Bottom right traces of the polished-off number: 143.