The Seven Years War (1756-63)
Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war
Germany, Europe and North America, 1756-63
1765Engraving; printed on paper; some maps are hand-coloured; in full brown leather binding | 23.3 x 17.5 cm (pages) (page dimensions) | RCIN 731066
A collection of 67 small maps of actions in Germany during the Seven Years War, 1756-63. Seven Years War (1756-63). The general map which appears at the head of the volume advertises that the actions and events of the war were represented in 74 maps. An undated note in pencil on the verso of the first blank folio of another copy of this work (RCIN 1080056.a), which also comprises only 67 maps and the general map, reads: ‘This appears to be the Beaurain Map of Germany – with all the plans etc which surrounded it – taken off & made into a volume.’
The title of the general map suggests that it was indeed originally surrounded by 74 small plans. If that was so, in order for them to be fitted round the general plan of Germany, they would have to have been cut down to the border, and then mounted, without the text, in a double row around the main map. The small plans in this volume all follow a similar format with the explanatory text at the bottom, or to the right side of the map. The position of the text for each map is indicated in the list of contents, below, by the lower case 'b' or 'r' in square brackets after the short title and date.
The maps are hand coloured to show the Allied army in red and the French army in blue. The maps are catalogued separately.
The volume has a full brown leather binding; upper and lower boards edged with three gold lines; the cipher of George III is stamped in gold in the centre of both boards. Spine with five ridges, decorated with a floral emblem in gold; two leather title labels, now mainly missing, with the gold letters ‘GU’ remaining [GUERRE DE SEPT ANS 1755 -1763]. Marbled end papers; red staining to edges of pages; three blank pages at the end. The maps are trimmed to the edge of the outer border and are reverse window mounted onto the page.
CONTENTS:
1. Carte d'Allemagne pour servir a l'intelligence de l'histoire de la guerre. (2 sheets)
2. Fort St Philip 1756. [b]
3 . Quebec/Ft Carillon/Ft Chouagen/ Ft William Henry. [r]
4. Wesel 1763. [r]
5 . Lippstadt 1758. [r]
6. Cassel 1757-1762. [r]
7. Hastenbeck 1757. [b]
8. Hanovre 1757-1758. [r]
9. Harburg 1757. [r]
10. Dusseldorf 1758. [r]
11. Crevelt 1758. [b]
12. Sandershausen, Meppen, 1758. [b]
13. Louisbourg 1758. [b]
14. Meer 1758. [r]
15. St Cast 1758. [b]
16. Luternberg 1758. [r]
17. Bergen 1759. [r]
18. Guadeloupe 1759 [b]
19. Minden 1759. [b]
20. Marburg 1759. [r]
21. Quebec 1759. [b]
22. Münster 1759. [r]
23. Corbach 1760. [r]
24. Warbourg 1760. [r]
25. Clostercamp 1760. [r]
26. Le Palais 1761. [b]
27. Villinghausen 1761. [r]
28. Dresden 1760. [r]
29. Martinique 1762. [b]
30. Wilhelmsthal 1762. [r]
31. Fort-Moro 1762. [b]
32. Grüningen 1762. [r]
33. Almeida 1762. [r]
34. Johansberg 1762. [r]
35. Brunswick 1761. [r]
36. Lobositz 1756. [r]
37. Pirna 1756. [r]
38. Reichenberg.1757. [r]
39. Prague 1757. [r]
40. Prague 1757. [r]
41. Chotzemitz 1757. [r]
42. Görlitz 1757. [r]
43. Berlin 1760. [r]
44. Rosbach 1757. [r]
45. Schweidnitz 1757. [r]
46. Breslaw 1757. [r]
47. Breslaw 1757. [r]
48. Lissa 1757. [r]
49. Olmütz 1758. [r]
50. Neiss 1758. [r]
51. Hochkirchen 1758. [r]
52. Kolin 1759. [r]
53. Maxen 1759. [r]
54. Landshut 1760. [r]
55. Lignitz 1760. [b]
56. Strehla 1760. [b]
57. Torgau 1760. [r]
58. Mittel-Peile 1762. [b]
59. Schweidnitz 1762. [b]
60. Freiberg 1762. [b]
61. Memel 1757. [b]
62. Pilau 1757-8. [b]
63. Gross-Jagersdorf 1757. [b]
64. Stralzund 1757-8. [b]
65. Zorndorff 1758. [b]
66. Colberg 1758. [b]
67. Palzig 1759 [b]
68. Kunersdorff 1759 [b]
Jean-Baptiste Jacques de Beaurain (1728-c. 1785) (publisher)
Condition: binding is very worn with surface erosion to the front and back boards; spine cracked and worn with pieces missing; red paint to edges. Each plan is in good clean condition, trimmed close to the outer black border and reverse window mounted onto paper; some foxing, brown stains and surface dirt to pages.
23.3 x 17.5 cm (pages)
24.2 x 18.4 cm (binding)
Printed title:
No title
Annotations:
George III heading: Military Germany 1756-1762.
Other annotations: each small plan is numbered in sequence, in pencil, on the verso in a late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century hand; the recto of each page is similarly numbered, bottom centre.
K. Mi. dummy sheet:
Title [ink:] Carte d'Allemagne pour servir a l'intelligence de l'histoire de la Guerre entre les Roys de France et / d'Angleterre; entre le Roy de Prusse et l'Imperatrice Reine, l'Electeur de Saxe, l'Empire, la Suede, et la / Russie: dans laquelle on a marqué les Batailles, Combats, prises de Villes, et Camps qu'on a puy faire entrer; / on y a tracé les Routes publiques, et joint une Histoire abregée des principaux faits militaires arrivés, tant sur / Terre que sur Mer, jusqu'aux Traités de Paix: - enrichie et entourée de 74 Plans representant les evenements / les plus memorables arrivés pendant le Cours de la Guerre commencée en 1755 et finie en 1763 - / par de Beaurain 1765. 2 feuilles. / One Volume Quarto ... [black pencil:] 5 H 7 / [ink:] Another Copy of Ditto ... one Volume Quarto ... [black pencil:] 5 H 7 / [black pencil, in a modern hand:] UL.I.3.F. / [George III heading, black pencil and red ink:] XI/66 Germany 1756 – 1762. Watermark: fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the monogram B&W below. Size: 47.1 x 32.6 cm (sheet).
George III catalogue entry:
Germany Carte d’Allemagne pour servir a l’intelligence de l’Histoire de la Guerre entre les Roys de France et d’Angleterre, entre le Roy de Prusse et l’Imperatrice Reine, l’Electeur de Saxe, l’Empire, la Suede et la Russie: dans laquelle on a marqué les Batailles, Combats, prises de villes, et camps qu’on a puy faire entrer: on y a tracé les Routes publiques et joint une Histoire abregée des principaux faits Militaires arrivés tant sur Terre que sur Mer jusqu’aux Traités de Paix: enrichie et entourée de 74 Plans representant les Evenements les plus memorables arrivés pendant le cours de la Guerre commencée en 1755 et finie en 1763: par de Beaurain 1765. 2 feuilles 4.to / Another copy of D.o 4.to
Bibliographic reference(s)
Another example of this volume with the two-sheet general map and 67 small engraved plans was sold at Christies (Sale 8227 Lot 13 on 19 April 1999 for $1,725.)
Philips/Le Gear 2183;
Tooley, Mapmakers I, 104.
Page revisions
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