Very attractive and uncommon plan of the city with excellent detail of the surrounding countryside. The plan was intended to show the development of Paris, and uses a series of dotted lines to show the location of the city's northern walls at earlier times, during 1422 and 1589. A legend surrounded with the accoutrements of war at lower left lists churches, schools, hospitals, hotels, and other important landmarks. One of eight plans from Nicolas Delamare's Traite de la police, a well known treatise on city administration. Drawn and engraved by A. Coquart (1668-1707).

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Condition: B+

A dark impression with faded original color. The sheet has been professionally remargined all round with a few lines of facsimile in the lower neatline.