City Fortifications and Environs

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Plan de Charleroy avec ses attaques
Plan de Charleroy avec ses attaques
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. North is oriented to the left. Shows fortifications and lines of artillery fire.
Plan de Lunéville assiegé par M.r de Longueville
Plan de Lunéville assiegé par M.r de Longueville
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. “Dessiné à la plume”. Visual scale [73 mm=170 toises]. North arrow is oriented down. Includes "Table des renvois."
Plan de Mantoue et de ses environs
Plan de Mantoue et de ses environs
Printed map. "Par M. de Beaurain". Visual scale [66 mm = 1000 Toi.]. Probably from Voyage en Italie: Recueil de cartes et de plans. (Paris: publisher unknown, 1750-1760?). Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Cholmondely Collection.
Plan de Naples
Plan de Naples
Printed map. Cartographer unknown. Volume numbering in imprint matches. Possibly from Voyage en Italie: Recueil de cartes et de plans, published 1750-1760. Visual scale, 59 mm = 500 Toises.
Plan de Reveré
Plan de Reveré
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [80 mm=100 toises]. Includes notes.
Plan de St. Benedict avec les environs...
Plan de St. Benedict avec les environs...
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [97 mm=600 toises]. Handwritten text in upper left corner (difficult to transcribe with certainty). Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Cholmondely Collection.
Plan de St: Sebastien
Plan de St: Sebastien
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [54 mm=200 "toises" [fathoms]]. Includes "Renvoy" or reference list. Date has been estimated by dates of somewhat similar maps listed in the Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps, Charts, and Plans, and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum. For example: "A 'Plan de St. Sebastien ;' drawn about 1740, on a scale of 100 toises to an inch : 1 f. 3 in. x 9 in. [Add. 15,327. 22.]" (Catalogue, v. 3, p. 24). Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Cholmondely Collection.
Plan de la Ville, Citadelle et Chasteaux de Bayonne
Plan de la Ville, Citadelle et Chasteaux de Bayonne
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [74 mm = 100 toises]. Extensive legend spanning the entire bottom margin of the map. A note at the end of the legend in the bottom-right corner states that the fortifications indicated in yellow were planned by Vauban but were never completed. A Robert Clifford ownership label is affixed to the verso. Acquired by McMaster University in 1969 as part of the Lord Cholmondeley collection.
Plan de la ville et château d'Acqui pris le 1745 abandonné le 12. mars 1746....
Plan de la ville et château d'Acqui pris le 1745 abandonné le 12. mars 1746....
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Remainder of title: "Assiegé une 2me. soir le 30. avril pris le 3. may au soir et le 18. environ ou en fit sauter 2 fronts. D. partie on le mineur...." Visual scale [80 mm=150 fathoms]. Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Cholmondely Collection.
Plan de la ville et siege de Boldvc
Plan de la ville et siege de Boldvc
Manuscript map. "Par son Exce. le Prince D'orange". Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [72 mm=2,000 pas]; "eschelle de 2000 pas". Shows forts and fortifications. Handwritten in ink on verso, "Plan de Boldue no. 63". Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.
Plan de la ville, chateav et environs de Viadane
Plan de la ville, chateav et environs de Viadane
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [88 mm=100 toises]. The map is very detailed, showing buildings, churches or monasteries, and land parcels. Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.
Plan der stadt und vestung Maynz und ihrer gegend während der Französischen belagerung derselben von dem jahr 1794 bis 1795...
Plan der stadt und vestung Maynz und ihrer gegend während der Französischen belagerung derselben von dem jahr 1794 bis 1795...
Printed map. "Von J. N. Arnould, Ing. Frankfurt a. M. bei Varrentrapp und Wenner. Gestock. von C. Felsing zu Darmstaft". Visual scale [142 mm = 1500 Franz. Klafter]. This is a pictorial, topographic map showing fortifications, roads, rivers, trees, fields, and hills in the vicinity of Mainz (Germany). Catalogued in Bibliothèque nationale de France. Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.
Plan des environs de la ville et des forts de Berg-op-Zoom
Plan des environs de la ville et des forts de Berg-op-Zoom
Printed map. "Levé Géométriquement par M.*** après l’Assaut donné par l’Armée du Roy le 16 7bre 1747." Map created by Jaillot after the successful siege of the city by the French during the War of the Austrian Succession in 1747. Detailed legend of fortifications. A Robert Clifford ownership label is affixed to the verso. Acquired by McMaster University in 1969 as part of the Lord Cholmondeley collection.
Plan des ville citadelle et château de Nice
Plan des ville citadelle et château de Nice
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [54 mm=150 toises]. Includes index. Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.
Plan du Chateau de Landscron
Plan du Chateau de Landscron
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [67 mm=150 toises]. Shows fortifications. Includes text. Handwritten in pencil on verso, "Landscron no. 20." Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.
Plan du cour de la Riviere de Meuze a l'entrée de la ville de Sedan
Plan du cour de la Riviere de Meuze a l'entrée de la ville de Sedan
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [137 mm=100 toises]. View of the land outside of the city fortifications. Handwritten on verso in block capital letters, "Moulins de Sedan".
Plan du projet de Mr de Vauban pour la ville de Toul
Plan du projet de Mr de Vauban pour la ville de Toul
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Visual scale [169 mm=500 toises]. Shows plan of town and street patterns superimposed by fortification and abbeys. Includes a cross-section diagram in the left margin. Handwritten on verso, "Plan de Toul 1700." Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.
Plan et carte particuliere des environs de Lerida
Plan et carte particuliere des environs de Lerida
Manuscript map. Cartographer unknown. Handwritten textual content is difficult to transcribe with certainty. Visual scale [62 mm=300 toises].
Plan routier de la Ville et Faubourg de Rouen...
Plan routier de la Ville et Faubourg de Rouen...
Printed map. Cartographer unknown. 1 visual scale [95 mm = 400 toises]. Map shows streets, buildings, trees, fields, and river. Legend included. There is a compass rose. 1 inset: ENVIRONS / de / ROUEN. On verso: a Robert Clifford bookplate. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.
Prospect, Grundris und Gegent der Königl. Schwed. Vestung Stralsund
Prospect, Grundris und Gegent der Königl. Schwed. Vestung Stralsund
Printed map. "Von (tit.) Herra Daniel Heer ... und von Ioh. Bapt. Homann…." Visual scale. Includes inset, "Vorstellung Verschiedener Attaques zur See und der Penemunder Schanz" and view of Stralsund. Shows fortifications, the arrangement of armed forces and more. Although no ownership label is present, this map is believed to have belonged to the Honourable Robert Clifford. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondeley Collection.

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