King Louis XV’s war plans for the proposed invasion of England during the Seven Years' War, including 19 maps of the British coast, beautifully bound together in a gold embossed, red leather cover. These hand engraved maps were pirated from the British and abridged by French Royal Cartographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin. The French Navy published a very limited number of this 18th-century atlas for its high-ranking naval officers. The top secret maps and plans safeguarded in this leather bound atlas contained vital British geographical statistics. Fortunately for the collector, though perhaps not for Louis XV's Navy, these plans of attack were never called into action and the atlas remains in remarkable condition. Seldom are documents of such h