Description
copper engraving map from ‘…Beschreibung des ganzen Weltkreises…, das alte & neue Asia… [Description of the Entire Globe…Old and New Asia]’ ; German edition of ‘Description de l’Univers’, [Description of the Entire Globe…Old and New Asia]’ ; vol. 2 of 5, pl. 62, original French ed: 1683.
Allain Mallet whose professional occupation was a military engineer, is known more for his authorship of the five volume “Description de l’Univers”, one of the earliest printed miniature, illustrated world history/geography books. It contains numerous decorative maps, views, portraits etc.
![Régates de Saumur. [Saumur regattas]](https://www.gop.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jo64565-LIllustration-1863-Regates-de-Saumur-600x750.webp)
![[1] Entwurff der Nassauischen Flotta, wie dieselbe ahn dem Ufer New Hispanien gelegen, und auff die Schiffe von Manilla kommend gewart hat [Sketch of the Nassau Fleet as ankered offshore Mexico awaiting the Manilla galleons] [2] Wie die Nassauische Flotta Sudwestwarts under der Insul guagan gehalten hat, so eine von den Ladronen Insulen ist. [How the Nassau Fleet kept south-west near the shores of Guam, one of the Ladrones Islands]](https://www.gop.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JO59445-Gottfriedt-Marianas-Guam-600x750.webp)