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The Seven Years War (1756-63)

Manuscript and printed maps and views, correspondence and journals from the first global war

FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON BAUER (1731-83)

Maps of Germany, 1757-62

1759-66

Half bound in tan leather; finely-marbled blue paper to upper and lower boards; no lettering to the spine. Engraved maps; printed on paper; some hand coloured. | 65.0 x 49.2 cm (boards) | RCIN 732001

A volume of general and large-scale maps and plans of the area covered by the Seven Years War in Germany, 1757-1762. Seven Years War (1756-63). See also RCINs 732001.a-y.

Contents of volume: seven sheets of the topographical map; Siége du Chateau de Harbourg 1757; Position de l’Armée Alliée; Passage de l’Aller et de l’Affaire de Hoya etc; Table des quartiers des catonnements etc; Passage du rhine de l’Armée Alliée Juin 1758; l’Affaire de Rhinbergue Juin 1758; Bataille de Creveld Juin 1758; Bombardement de Dusseldorff Juin 1758; l’Affaire de Meer Aout 1758; les Affaires de Sangershousen et de Lutternberg 1758; Mouvements de l’Armée 26-31 May & 12 aug to Sept 1758; Bataille de Thonhausen 1759; Siége de Bronsvic 1761; Bataille de Vellinghausen 1761; Bataille de Wilhelmsthal 1761; Siege of Cassel 1762. Each map has a separate entry. 

The symbols used to distinguish between infantry, cavalry, dragoons, and hussars, are explained on RCIN 732002.ax: diagonal hatching represents infantry; vertical hatching represents cavalry; a dotted fill represents dragoons, and a rectangle divided into a blank triangle and a vertically hatched triangle represents the hussars.

  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Bauer (1731-83) (compiler and draughtsman)

    Jakob van der Schley (1715-79) (engraver)

    JC Hennemann (active 1761) (draughtsman)

    HD Gerlach (active 1762) (surveyor)

    Pierre Gosse Jr (1718-94) (publisher)

    Daniel Pinet (active 1762-86) (publisher)

  • Condition: binding in very poor condition; marbled paper torn and leather missing from spine. Maps are clean, mainly crisp images

  • 65.0 x 49.2 cm (boards)

  • Printed title:

    No title page

    Annotations:

    George III heading: Military Germany 1757-1762.

    Other annotations: [bottom right of first blank leaf, black pencil:] Calif 26 A4; each separate map is numbered in black pencil in sequence. 

    K. Mil. dummy sheet:

    Title [ink:] Theatre de la Guerre en Allemagne entre la Grande Bretagne et la France / depuis l'an 1757 jusqu'à l'an 1762 : dessiné par le Col. F.W. de Bawr, / chez Gosse et Pinet 1769, 7 feuilles. - avec 18 Plans des Sieges et / Batailles donnés depuis 1757 jusqu'à 1762. / One Volume Folio ... [black pencil: 5 L 1 / [George III heading, red ink:] XII.1 Germany 1757 - 1762. 
    Watermark: fleur-de-lys in crowned shield, the scrolled letter W below. 
    Size: 46.9 x 32.9 cm (sheet). 

    George III catalogue entry:

    Germany Theatre de la Guerre en Allemagne entre la Grande Britagne et la France depuis l’an 1757 jusqu’a l’an 1762: dessiné par le Colonel F.W. de Bawr: chez Gosse et Pinet, 1769. 7 feuilles; avec 18 Plans des Sieges et Batailles donnés depuis 1757 jusqu’a 1762. Fol.

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