Plans of Lillers and the forts Rebus, Ranty, and Henuin, 1726

Sheet with four plans of the fortifications around the city of Lillers and the forts of Rebus, Ranty, and Henuin. Plate no. 224 in part X of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne, 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. Most of these plates are copied from 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. Sheet with the impression of a half-plate to which a sheet with the impression of another half-plate is attached.