For many scholars it is the first map on the Battle of Rande (Seoane & Prado Collection)

It is a rare example in libraries and difficult to find. It is a work in two volumes published in 1708 in the German city of Leipzig. They had passed, the day of their impression at the workshops of Johan Groffus Erben and Johann Friedrich Braun, just over five years of that legendary battle between the Fleet of the Indies that with the support of the escort of the ships of the French and Spanish armed, inside the Ría de Vigo, was defeated by British and Dutch. Most of the prints and maps printed in those distant early 18th century were not immediate to the battle: October 1702, but were published in the vast majority between 1710 and 1725, and in many cases made by artists who were never in the beautiful Ria de Vigo...

One of the two books about Charles III the king who did not become (Seoane & Prado Collection)

The above-mentioned work is about His Majesty Charles III (that is, about the Austria that did not become crowned) in the course of the Spanish War of Succession. The confrontation had begun in 1701 and ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The work contains in its interior several truly curious and high quality engravings, despite their size (20 × 15) of the different scenarios where the war is taking place, and among them one of the first maps or engravings of the Battle of Rande that was made at the end of 1703 and included in the work. For not a few researchers it is the first in the long series of documents about the historic naval confrontation with four bands: Spanish-France vs. English-Holland.