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MALLET, ALLAIN MANESSON. 1630-1706. Description de l'univers, contenant les différents systèmes du monde, les cartes générales et particulières de la géographie ancienne et moderne.... Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683. image 1
MALLET, ALLAIN MANESSON. 1630-1706. Description de l'univers, contenant les différents systèmes du monde, les cartes générales et particulières de la géographie ancienne et moderne.... Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683. image 2
MALLET, ALLAIN MANESSON. 1630-1706. Description de l'univers, contenant les différents systèmes du monde, les cartes générales et particulières de la géographie ancienne et moderne.... Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683. image 3
MALLET, ALLAIN MANESSON. 1630-1706. Description de l'univers, contenant les différents systèmes du monde, les cartes générales et particulières de la géographie ancienne et moderne.... Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683. image 4
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MALLET, ALLAIN MANESSON. 1630-1706.
Description de l'univers, contenant les différents systèmes du monde, les cartes générales et particulières de la géographie ancienne et moderne.... Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.

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MALLET, ALLAIN MANESSON. 1630-1706.

Description de l'univers, contenant les différents systèmes du monde, les cartes générales et particulières de la géographie ancienne et moderne.... Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.
5 volumes. 8vo (207 x 115 mm). 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). 18th-century speckled calf, rebacked, morocco lettering pieces, volumes 4 and 5 with hinges strengthened with cloth tape, spine of volume 5 perished.
Provenance: Gravier (signed in all volumes, dated 1684 in volume 5); Bibliotheque de Monsieur le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand (ex-libris to paste-down of each volume).

FIRST EDITION of this encyclopedic geographical work. Includes celestial, ethnological and cartographic plates. There are polar maps, views of Australia, a map of Japan, and 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. Pastoureau Manesson-Mallet 1A; Phillips Atlases 3447; Sabin 44130.

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