Title: "Hispahan"

Author: A. M. Mallet

Note: from "Beschreibung des ganzen Welt Kreises"

Size: 

Sheet 16,5 cm x 20 cm

Engraving 10 cm x 13,5 cm

Condition: very good

Alain Manesson Mallet was a French cartographer and engineer. He started his career as a soldier in the army of Louis XIV. became a Sergeant-Major in the artillery and an Inspector of Fortifications. His major publications were Description de L'Univers (1683) in 5 volumes contains a wide variety of information, including star maps, maps of the ancient and modern world, and a synopsis of the customs, religion and government of the many nations included in his text. Mallet himself drew most of the figures that were engraved for this book.