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[RELIURE AUX ARMES]. [ATLAS COMPOSITE]. [BEAULIEU (Sébastien de) Les glori
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[BINDING WITH ARMS]. [COMPOSITE ATLAS]. [BEAULIEU (Sébastien de) Les glorieuses conquestes de Louis le Grand roy de France et de Navarre dediées au roy]. [Paris, l'auteur, ca. 1694].
In-folio, contemporary brown calf, 6-ribbed spine, havana morocco title-piece probably renewed, fleur-de-lys caissons, triple fillet edging the covers with gilded arms in the center, all gilded, gilded roulette to the spines and chasses, gilt edges (rubbing to the spine, one box missing at the tail, rough restorations to the spine, head-cap and corners, tomaisons scratched| qq. ordinary very moderate russets).
A precious collection, most probably compiled for the use of the Grand Condé, whose coat of arms appears on the binding. It mainly contains engraved plates based on drawings by cartographer Sébastien de Pontault de Beaulieu, which were later to form the collection known as the "Grand Beaulieu".
It comprises 107 copper-engraved plates. Of these, 88 are plans and profiles of towns, 72 of which are undoubtedly by Beaulieu, the others being of similar workmanship but yet to be identified| and 19 plates of maps and plans by other publishers, including Jaillot, Visscher and De Fer. Of these, the dated ones were published between 1669 and 1677 (list of plates on request).
The copy is bound with the arms of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, known as le Grand Condé. The latter died in 1686, almost 10 years before the publication of the first collection of Beaulieu's plates in an atlas, around 1694. Beaulieu himself died in 1674, and Mireille Pastoureau tells us that some of these plates were engraved during his lifetime. It is likely, therefore, that this collection was made for the Grand Condé, probably as part of a larger set of volumes, as indicated by the tomaison engraved on the spine.
(Pastoureau, p. 37 sq.)
In-folio, contemporary brown calf, 6-ribbed spine, havana morocco title-piece probably renewed, fleur-de-lys caissons, triple fillet edging the covers with gilded arms in the center, all gilded, gilded roulette to the spines and chasses, gilt edges (rubbing to the spine, one box missing at the tail, rough restorations to the spine, head-cap and corners, tomaisons scratched| qq. ordinary very moderate russets).
A precious collection, most probably compiled for the use of the Grand Condé, whose coat of arms appears on the binding. It mainly contains engraved plates based on drawings by cartographer Sébastien de Pontault de Beaulieu, which were later to form the collection known as the "Grand Beaulieu".
It comprises 107 copper-engraved plates. Of these, 88 are plans and profiles of towns, 72 of which are undoubtedly by Beaulieu, the others being of similar workmanship but yet to be identified| and 19 plates of maps and plans by other publishers, including Jaillot, Visscher and De Fer. Of these, the dated ones were published between 1669 and 1677 (list of plates on request).
The copy is bound with the arms of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, known as le Grand Condé. The latter died in 1686, almost 10 years before the publication of the first collection of Beaulieu's plates in an atlas, around 1694. Beaulieu himself died in 1674, and Mireille Pastoureau tells us that some of these plates were engraved during his lifetime. It is likely, therefore, that this collection was made for the Grand Condé, probably as part of a larger set of volumes, as indicated by the tomaison engraved on the spine.
(Pastoureau, p. 37 sq.)