BEAULIEU le DONJON , Chevalier de - Sebastien de Pontault de Beaulieu - Romeijn de Hooghe ( engraver ) :
Reference : 40823
" Paris, chez l'Autheur, rue St. André des Arts, Porte de Bucy, 2 oblong albums in-4°, 17,5 x 23,5 cm, bound in contemporary full mottled calf, marbled edges, decorated spine with title label. With an engraved contemporary ex-libris of a French general or marshal ( unidentified). Volume I contains 9 engraved frontispieces, 53 maps, 70 plans , 56 views. Comté de Flandre , Alost , Duché de Brabant , Duché de Gueldre , Duché de Cambrai , Comté de Haynault , Comté de Namur , Duché de Limbourg , Duché de Luxembourg. Volume II contains 4 frontispieces, 41 maps , 61 plans and 43 views. Plans et cartes des Villes d'Artois , Plans des Duchez de Lorraine et de Bar , villes d'Allemagne - no frontispiece ( Pays du Rhin - Trèves, Manheim, Worms, Wesel, Ulm...) ; General title + dedication signed P. de la Serre, l' Alsace (avec Strasbourg, Hagenau.......). In all the 2 volumes contain 343 engravings of cities and strongholds in the north of France and in present-day Belgium (Walloon country and Flanders), Luxembourg, Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz, Köln...). The bindings show some minor traces of wear, interior is fine with strong imprints and large margins. This item is sold as a collection of views and maps without the pretence of being complete."