Description de l'univers, : contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la geographie ancienne & moderne : les plans & les profils des principales villes & des autres lieux plus considerables de la terre ; avec les portraits des souverains qui y commandent, leurs blasons, titres & livrées : et les mœurs, religions, gouvernemens & divers habillemens de chaque nation. Dediee au roy.
Manesson-Mallet's Description de l'univers, published in Paris by Denys Thierry in 1683, is a French cosmography and geography in several volumes, offering maps, town plans and profiles of cities, and portraits of rulers arranged by region. Its pages are engraved maps of Africa, the Atlantic islands and coastal Guinea, with ships, sea monsters, decorative cartouches and rhumb-line grids, showing how 17th-century cartographers combined navigation charts, costume and place-name lettering into one framed plate.
