Manesson-Mallet, Allain, approximately 1630-approximately 1706, Description de l'univers , MDCLXXXV-MDCLXXXVI [1685-1686]
- Title(s):
- 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, dediée au roy / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...
- Edition:
- Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris.
- Published/Created:
- Francfourt sur le Main : Chez Jean David Zunner, MDCLXXXV-MDCLXXXVI [1685-1686]
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 21 cm. (4to)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsG1015 .M35 1683Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12254816
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Previously published Paris, 1683.
Title pages for v. 4-5 bear date 1686.
Each volumes has etched frontispiece, with title in French and German. (Vol. 1 in French alone, text in letterpress). Frontispiece for v. 1 etched by Johann Jacob Vogel, for v. 2 by W.C. Daucher. Vol. 1 includes portraits of Louis XIV, to whom the work is dedicated, and of the author. Some plates in v. 1-2 signed by Vogel, Daucher, J.P. Aubry. Plates titled in German.
Signatures: v. 1: pi² [par.]⁴)o(⁴ A-2A⁴ -- v. 2: pi² a² (a1 signed a2) A-Y⁴ Z² -- v. 3: pi² a² (a2 signed a3) A-T⁴ -- v. 4: pi² a² (a1 signed a2) A-2D⁴ -- v. 5: pi² a² (a1 signed a2) b² A-2L⁴.
Pagination, v. 1: [20], 282 [i.e. 182], [10] p. (last 3 blank), [2], 112 leaves of plates -- v. 2: [8], 159, [20] p. (the last blank), CXXXII [i.e. 119] leaves of plates -- v. 3: [8], 140, [12] p., CI [i.e. 91], [4] leaves of plates -- v. 4: [8], 176, [40] p. (last 2 blank), CXXX [i.e. 127] leaves of plates (2 double-page, folded) -- v. 5: [12], 234, [38] p. (last 2 blank), LXXXVIII, 52, [2] leaves of plates (2 double-page, folded). Some maps in v. 2-3 assigned two sequence nos.
Each volume includes index.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 44130
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVII. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 39:128936Q, 3:306500S, 3:306502G, 3:306504X, 3:306506N
Echeverria, D. French image of America, 685/3
BAC G1015 .M35 1683: Bound in contemporary vellum. - Subject Terms:
- Cosmography -- Early works to 1800.Geography -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Etchings.
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