[Les plans et profils des principales villes et lieux considérables.

10 parts in obl. 8vo: 10 engr. titles, 208 + 1 (of 226) pl. (pl. order occ. changed, Part Artois: pl. 4 Arras citadelle plan missing, Part Flandres: extra plan of Dunkerque (not in Pastoureau), pl. 34. IJzendijke, 39. Knokke, 42. Cassel plan, 55. Menin plan, 62. Lille plan, 70. Tournai missing, pl. 77. St. Amant in later part; Part Gelderland: pl. 2. Plan Geldern missing; Part Hainaut: extra pl. St. Amant from Flanders, pl. 3. Mons plan, 24. Maubeuge by Van Loon, 28. Ath missing; Part Namur: pl. 5. Linchamp and 15. Maastricht in next part, pl. 4. Charleroi, 6-7. Bouillon, 12. Dinant, 13-14. Maastricht missing; Part Luxembourg: 2 extra pl. Linchamp and Maastricht, pl. 13. Thionville gouvernement missing, sm. defects).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine (hinges broken, spine damaged, tr. of use).

Pocket atlas by the military engineer Beaulieu de Pontault (ca. 1612-1674) who served Louis II de Bourbon-Condé ou le Grand Condé. Part of the series "Plans et profils" in 14 vol., also known as the "Petits Beaulieu". Includes 10 engr. titles, 42 (of 43) pl. of Artois, 80 + 1 (of 86) pl. of Flanders, 11 (of 11) pl. of "Alost ou Flandre impérial", 8 (of 8) pl. of Brabant, 1 (of 2) maps of Gelderland, 6 (of 6) pl. of Cambrai, 34 (of 37) pl. of Hainaut, 9 (of 15) pl. of Namur, 3 (of 3) pl. of Limburg, 14 (of 15) pl. of Luxembourg, occ. in a different order than described by Pastoureau and with a supplementary dedicatory poem "A Monsieur le Chevalier de Beaulieu" signed "P. de la Serre". Part Hainaut is presumably an intermediate copy between IXAa en IXAb, and missed from the very start the 3 pl. that were replaced. Beaulieu describes the acquisitions of France.
Ref. Pastoureau, Beaulieu IIAa (Artois), VII Aa (Flanders), IAa (Aalst), IVa (Brabant), VIIIAa (Gelderland), VAb (Cambrai), IXAa (Hainaut), XIIIAa (Namur), XAa (Limburg), XIIAa (Luxembourg).