Les Isles Philippines 1684 – Die Philippinische Inseln

₱26,400.00

Author: Mallet, Allain Manesson

Publisher: Johann David Zunner in Frankfurt

Year: 1684 (1683)

Size: 13.8 x 10.1 cm

Reference: Quirino, p. 85; Phillips # 19; VD17 39:129238W; vgl. Sabin 4413; Phillips 4280; Pastoureau, Manes- son-Mallet I A/B, Poggendorff II, 26; Graesse IV, 353 f; Houseau & L. I, 8800 (frz. EA von 1683). 1st ed: "..des gantzen Welt-Kreyses.." 2nd ed: "…dess gantzen Welt Kraisses…"

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Description

hand-coloured copper engraving.

RARE map from ‘…Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreyses…, das alte & neue Asia…, FIRST GERMAN edition, pl. 54, original French edition: 1683.
This print consists of 3 parts: a decorative cartouche, the map of the Philippines, and the Sea Battle between Van Noort and de Morga at the mouth of Manila Bay in 1600. Mallet was a Cartographer and Engineer (1630-1706), his work describes in 5 parts all nations on all 5 continents. He was a soldier, first in the Portuguese and then in the French army of Louis XIV.