Napoleon.- Europe.- Inselin (Charles) Carte Nouvelle et Curieuse du Royaume d'Espagne, engraved map of Spain, a very good impression, 620 x 960 mm (24 3/8 x 37 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some minor spotting and surface dirt, folding without slipcase, manuscript inscription to label on upper cover 'L'Espagne', 8vo, Paris, 1762; together with 3 variant folding maps of regions within Bohemia by I.K. Kindermann, engravings with outline hand-colouring, each approx. 470 x 590 mm (18 1/2 x 23 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, minor surface dirt, all folding into original slipcase with spine gilt, very worn, 8vo, 1802; and with 5 folding maps by Chauchard of areas within Germany, including on key map, engraving, various sizes, all folding into original slipcase, 8vo, [circa 1795]
Provenance:
Marshal Edouard Mortier, Duke of Trevise (1768-1835); Thence by descent;
Sale. RWB Auctions, Napoleonic Wars Archive, June 2025 [part lot]
⁂ Mortier served during the French Revolutionary War and was an important Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars, controlling Hanover. He was Ambassador to Russia, Minister of Spain, Governor of the Kremlin and later Minister of War and Prime Minister of the French Republic between November 1834 and March 1835. He was killed in June 1835 during an assassination attempt on King Louis Philippe I.
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