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MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de

Doubts Concerning The Free Navigation of the Scheld Claimed by the Emperor

London
W. Faden
1785

€180 - €240

8vo, [2], vi, 168 pp, with engraved title-vignette and folding engraved map (Esquisse Géographique du Cours de l'Escaut par L.S. de la Rochette). (A few marginal tears without loss). Modern marbled boards, morocco letterpiece on spine

"Doutes sur la liberté de l'Escaut in English. Ref. Kress B 909. ""Written in favor of the Dutch when Joseph II demanded the opening of the Scheldt in behalf of the 'Brabançons'"". The chart shows the Scheldt estuary with Ostend, Bruges and Antwerp in the South, Delft and Gouda in the North"

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