Description de l'univers
Description de l'univers is a 1683 Paris geography book by Allain Manesson Mallet, published by D. Thierry, written for a general reader of cosmography and the known world. Its pictures are engraved world maps in hemispheric projection and a celestial sphere with decorative garlands, with dense place names, rhumb-line grids, ships and sea monsters that a designer could draw on for antique cartographic motifs and border ornament.
