View of Astrakhan, 1726
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View of Astrakhan, a city in the south of Russia. In the foreground boats on a river and the so-called Kalmyk Market. Plate no. 452 in part XVIII 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 second part with 271 hand-numbered plates of famous fortified cities and strongholds in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from anonymous French plates of famous fortified cities and strongholds: 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 in French, inscriptions in French and Dutch.
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