Mallet’s Map of Alexandria
SKU: 8079
£100.00
Title:
Mallet’s Map of Alexandria
Date of publication:
c.1683
Printed Measurement:
15.5 x 10.5 cm
Publisher(s):
Colour:
black and white
Mapmaker(s):
Alexandrie
Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, black and white, French text on verso; map of Alexandria, from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, 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.