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
Description de l'univers is a 1685 French-language geographical compendium by Allain Manesson-Mallet, published in Frankfurt am Main by Jean David Zunner, covering ancient and modern geography, cosmography, and the customs of nations. Its pictures are small engraved maps with decorative cartouches and titles, showing Aegean islands, Turkey in Europe, Illyria, and ancient Europe. A designer might take from them the period cartographic lettering, ornamental title frames, and sea-monster borders typical of seventeenth-century atlas plates.
