Title page: Text engraved within a vignette with two naked female torses in garlands: Plãs et profilz | des principales villes de | la prouince de L’ISLE DE | FRANCE, auec la carte gene~ | rale & les particulieres de chaf~ | cun gouuernement d’icelles.

Below handwritten pencil inscription by a previous owner: “par … Tassin … 1634”.

Size: 17.6 x 23.7 cm,

Binding: Italian style, green half-vellum, burgundy morocco title label with vertical gilt lettering to spine, peacock marbled boards.

Pagination: Two blank flyleaves in the front and two in the back; 18 numbered engraved plates, including:

1. Title page
2. Table of Contents
3. Normandie
4. Environs de Paris
5. Folding map of Paris – a simplified copy of Mathieu Merian’s 1615 perspective plan, with minor updates, notably on the current housing estate of Ile Saint-Louis.
6. Paris
7. Gouvernment de Soissons
8. Soissons
9. Gouvernment de Beauvais
10. Beauvais
11. Gouvernment de Compiègne
12. Compiègne
13. Gouvernment de Noyon
14. Noyon
15. Gouvernment de Coussi
16. Coussi
17. Gouvernment de Senlis
18. Senlis

Bookplate of Ansar to front pastedown – Selim Hippolyte Ansart (1829-1897), commissar of police in the Second Empire and shortly after.

Regarding our copy’s dating: The same unusual spelling on the title is at Getty’s Library (Library’s copy lacks no. 5 of the Isle de France section, i.e. plan of Paris).