Boeknummer: 68095
bey Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, Leipzig, 1780
Small 8vo (14x9 cm). Original blind wrappers of decorated paper (some loss of paper, mainly to the spine). Uncut. (iv),280,(ii blank) pp. (paper age-toned and with occasional brown spots). With 1 folding schedule: "Englischen Militz" and 5 engraved plates: 2 handcoloured folding tables: "Plan der Brittischen Armee..." and "Plan der Königlichen Französischen Armee...", 1 folding plate: "Abbildung eines englischen Kriegsschiffes..." (12x18cm), 1 handcoloured folding map engraved by J.G. Schmidt: Charte der Brittischen Laender in Nord-America" (17x21 cm) and 1 handcoloured plan: "Belagerung der Vestung Gibraltar, 1779" (14x22 cm). - 2 leaves (p.207-210) loose, not tied; pages 67-70 wrongly numbered, but complete; outer margin of page 45/46 cut short. - Apart from the remarks made above still an attractive copy with interesting illustrations, descriptive the English colonies, but most of all the equipment (warships, , artillery) of the troops at the beginning of the siege that lasted till 1783.
