Vellum bound pilot, with the name referring to the nautical atlas of Blaeu and Jansonius, Le Flambeau de la navigation…
But there stops the resemblance. First edition is of 1684. This is a pilot of Bougard René, not an atlas, with woodprints of the harbours. It was used a lot in the nautical shools an on board. It had 14 editions, even an English one in 1781. The maps did not change till 1789. René Bougard was a French hydrographer of Le Havre. This work was mostly used as a manual of instruction in schools of Hydrography; that explains the numerous editions. In ‘Le Petit flambeau’, Bougard describes the coasts of France, England, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and all the Mediterranean coasts. He also writes about coasts of Africa and more precisely, of Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands.