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[Eléazar de MAUVILLON ]- History of Gustave-Adolphus, king of Sweden. Composed on all that has appeared of more curious, & on a great number of manuscripts, & mainly on those of Mr. Arkenholtz [...]. Amsterdam, Z. Chatelain, Arkstée & Merkus, M.M. Rey, 1764. In-4, 255 x 205 mm, contemporary calf, five-ribbed spine, red leather title-piece, red edges (headpieces torn off, jaws rubbed and split, spidering). [8], x, 602 pp. 9 plates, 8 of them folding. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait engraved by P. Pontius after Van Dyck, a large table describing a "new method of arranging a column brigade, practiced by the king of Sweden in the wars of Germany...", a map of Pomerania, the plan of the battle of Leipzig, a map of the war in Saxony, a state of the war on the Rhine, the passage of the Lech, a state of the war in Bavaria and the order of the battle of Walstein. Some foxing of varying intensity.
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