Mallet’s Map of Africa Publisher(s)_Printed by Cheffins for Kelly & Co. & Post Office Directory Office

Mallet’s Map of Africa Publisher(s)_Printed by Cheffins for Kelly & Co. & Post Office Directory OfficeThis map of the continent of Africa is from Mallets Description de lUnivers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the following year. Mallet was a military engineer, cartographer and mathematician in the service of the French King, Louis XIV. Betz notes the relative lack of interior detail, owing to the small format of the map, but it generally follows a much earlier Blaeu interpretation of Africa. Condition &

This map of Milan shows towns heightened in gold

Together with a history of those momentous transactions compiled from official and other authentic documents

From “In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part”

publisher’s cloth

lettered in gilt on the spine

from the German edition of Prévost's Voyages

or Quingdeo

With a splendid binding by William F Matthews

was published by a French bookseller in Napoleon’s short-lived client state

quae quidem extant

Although nowhere so stated

Unlike Kip and Hole