Maps of Armentières, La Bassée, Menin and IJzendijke, 1726

Sheet with four plans of the fortifications around the places of Armentieres, La Bassée, Menin, and IJzendijke. Plate no. 243 in part XI 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 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. Traces of the erased number in the lower right: 80.