
Mallet’s Map of Italy
SKU: 8199
£175.00
Title:
Mallet’s Map of Italy
Date of publication:
c.1683
Printed Measurement:
15.2 x 10.5 cm
Publisher(s):
Colour:
modern
Mapmaker(s):
Italie
Copper engraving, 15.2 x 10.5 cm, modern hand colour, French text on verso; a map of Italy, 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.