(France...) Les Plans et Profils de Toutes Les Principales villes et ...
A rare atlas of France, with parts of Switzerland (Geneva area) and Italy (Turin), portrayed through hundreds of maps, city plans and birdseye city views. Detailed engravings each, they offer a thorough study of the lands at the time, and have a simple charm. Two volumes, small oblong quarto, contemporary vellum binding, separated. Save for some wrinkled pages at each end tight, contents clean with no foxing. Book one has minor worming only to about twenty pages only in margins. Book two has worming in the margins, very heavy at the start, proceeding into some text (minor loss) and weakens until it is barely into first five maps (framelines) and then ceases. With fold-out map of France, England, and Paris. Map of Paris intact, with tear into left (no loss). Missing only one plate (St Tropez in Provence section) and a couple of blanks before title. Nice views of Paris,
Geneva, Chartes, many others -- ca450 engraved plates. Very decorative, with many of the coastal maps and islands showing ships, fish, etc. Inscribed John Freke / His Booke / 1652. Bookplate of the New York Historical Society 1860.
Condition is good. Image size is approximately 7 x 9 (inches)
