Views of Munkács, Kanischa and Sziget, 1726

Sheet with four views of Eastern European cities. Plan and view of the fortress Munkács or Mongats (Mukachevo) in Upper Hungary, present-day Ukraine, and two views of Kanischa and Sziget. Plate no. 459 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 from 1726, this second part with 271 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 the 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. Titles and inscriptions in French.