Description de l'Univers, contenant les differents systemes du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne: les Plans & les Profils des principales Villes & des autres lieux plus considerables de la Terre; avec les Portraits des Souverains qui y commandent, leurs Blasons, Titres & Livrées: et les Moeurs, Religions, Gouvernemens & divers habillemens de chaque Nation.

MALLET, Allain Manesson.

Edité par ParisChez Denys Thierry ., 1683

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FIRST EDITION. 5 vols. 8vo. (21x12 cm). Full 18th-century mottled calf, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, complementary red and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers. 5 engraved additional titles, 2 engraved portraits and 681 engraved plates (668 numbered plates, occasionally mis-numbered, and 12 "additional plates" bound at the end of volumes 2 & 3). Provenance: Gravier (signed in all volumes, dated 1684 in volume 5); ex libris Bibliotheque de Monsieur le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand, with his bookplate to paste-down of each volume. Inner hinges of vols. 4 and 5 strengthened with cloth tape, joints and extremities rubbed with some small partial losses, spine of volume 5 perished, contents toned but generally clean from further blemishes. First edition of this famed geographical guide known for its wealth of accurately delineated maps and views, most after the author, a skilled draughtsman with a background in mathematics and military engineering. In 1668, after serving Alfonso VI in Portugal, Mallet became mathematics master at the French court. His earlier Travaux de Mars (two editions, 1671 and 1684) was a treatise on fortification. Vol. I of the Description outlines the planetary system, vol. II is on Asia, III Africa, IV and first part of V Europe. The last volume is more of a catch-all, also having the 'terres Australes' and 'L'Amérique' as its subject. Volume 5 has dozens of views and maps of the Americas including Canada, Virginia, Florida, Mexico, California, and city views of Quebec and Havana among others. (Brunet, III, 1343), (Sabin, 44130).

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• Titre: Description de l'Univers, contenant les differents systemes du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne: les Plans & les Profils des principales Villes & des autres lieux plus considerables de la Terre; avec les Portraits des Souverains qui y commandent, leurs Blasons, Titres & Livrées: et les Moeurs, Religions, Gouvernemens & divers habillemens de chaque Nation.
• Éditeur: ParisChez Denys Thierry .
• Date de parution: 1683
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
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