= Cf. Koeman (Atlantes Neerlandici) III, p.17 (note). Rare first edition (printed with wide margins) of a late 17th-cent. military atlas of mainly the Southern Netherlands by the French cartographer Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) comprising 10 maps (probably engraved by the Flemish print-maker Pieter van den Keere (1571-ca. 1646), all dated “1697” in the plate) & 43 (fortification) plans designed by i.a. the French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) depicting i.a. Amsterdam, Anvers (Antwerp), Arras, Bruxelles (Brussels), Charleroi, Dendermonde, Dinant, Dunkirk, Gand (Ghent), Gravelines, Huy, Liège, Lille, Luxembourg, Maastricht, Malines, Mons, Naarden, Namen, Nieuwpoort, Oostende, Tournay, Valenciennes and Ypres.
Binding partly rubbed/ worn and upper joint split; small portion of backstrip missing at foot; small old owner’s stamp on first title; upper blank margin of first title-leaf sl. frayed/ torn; first free endpaper cut short; partly waterstained/ slightly moulded in inner blank margin. The maps generally in a very acceptable interior condition.