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16 views and 1 map on 1 sheet : hand colored ; image 15 x 11 cm
Views of cities (15 x 35 mm or smaller) and 1 map (17 x 29 mm) spread out in front of a tree with branches; pictorial scene with people at ground level.
Depicts towns and territories ceded to the French by the Dutch and Spanish in the Treaties of Nijmegen, a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Nijmegen between August 1678 and December 1679 after the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). France took control over the region of the Franche-Comté (the Imperial County of Burgundy). Also further territories of the Spanish Netherlands, including the town of Saint-Omer, the lands of Cassel, Aire and Ypres in southwestern Flanders, the Bishopric of Cambrai, as well as the towns of Valenciennes and Maubeuge in the southern County of Hainaut.
Appears in: Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises. Bd. 5.
Valencienes [Valenciennes, France] -- Cambray [Cambrai, France] -- Mont Cassel [Cassel, France] -- St. Omer [Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France] -- Aire [Aire-sur-la-Lys, France] -- Conde [Condé-sur-l'Escaut, France] -- Ypres [Ieper, Belgium] -- Bailleul [Belgium] -- Dinan [Dinant, Belgium] -- Bouchain [France] -- Poperinghen [Poperinge, Belgium] -- Varuich -- Bauay [Bavay, France] -- Fribourg -- Varneton [Warneton, Belgium] -- Maubeuge [France].
The Cushing Library copy is part of the Ronald L. and V. Jane Woellhof Rare Map Collection.