NAVY, PROVENCE, MILITARIA. - IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS AND HANDWRITTEN WATERCOLOUR PLANS. 18th c. - SBONSKI DE PASSEBON (Henri). Plan de plusieurs bâtiments de mer, avec leurs proportions. Slnd (1690). in-folio, brown calf, ribbed spine (18th c. binding). Engraved title by Simonneau, and 16 beautiful double plates of ships, engraved by Randon. Missing the dedication leaf and a double plate. Dark stain to some plates. - Bound thereafter, 10 plates relating to the coronation of Louis XV: - one double heraldic plate (cut short at lower margin - by J. Chevillard le père), - 3 double plates, 2 of which signed Le Pautre,$ (followed by a folded, crumpled explanatory leaflet), - 5 single plates (by Demortain, including 4 of the ceremony, folded, and a plate of the crown), - a plan of the Grande chambre du Parlement de Paris, with a small printed f. for the list of members (dated 1716), and a double plate: le Roy tenant son lit de justice (by Poilly), This is followed by numerous large engravings, maps, plans and drawings, including : - 6 handwritten and watercoloured plans, 18th c., very accomplished, on Marseille: Peninsula at the midday end of the isle of Ratonneau / Plan of the chasteau d'If / Rade de Marseille / Anchorage de Marseille / "Plan de l'Hôtel Dieu qui doit construire pour la réunion des autres hopiteaux"; pasted on a large double plan of the grounds / Plan des rades de Toulon. - 4 sketched plans, handwritten and watercoloured, 18th c., on the South: including La Ciotat, Colmars en Provence, citadel of Sézine. - Explanation of a madrague (engraved colour plate) - 2 maps: Mediterranean, Languedoc. - Maps by Delisle including: - Duchy of Burgundy (1709) / Champagne (1713) / Beauce, Gâtinais, Sologne / Berry (De Fer, 1713) / Bourdelois (1714) / Béarn (1712) / Berry (Jaillot, 1707) / Planisphere (1714, coloured outlines) / Normandy (1716) / Picardy (1712) / Artois / Burgundy - La Chartreuse: 3 engraved views and plans from the 17th century (1676); Map of Chartreuse (Bouchet, 1694). - 4 watercoloured manuscript plans from the 18th century: the citadel of Majorca - plan of the attacks on Toulouse, 1708 - plans of the surroundings of Dunkirk - the roadstead of Tripoly de Barbarie and the order of the bombardment, 1728 - and view of 2 "fish found on the coast of Nisse". All in one vol. in-folio, contemporary calf, very worn, with spine missing, and cover detached.