Description de l'univers
Description de l'univers is a 1683 Paris geography treatise by Allain Manesson Mallet, published by D. Thierry for a general readership of armchair geographers and cartographers. Its pictures are small engraved maps and a city view, with dense place-name lettering, decorative cartouches, and ships on the water, showing how seventeenth-century cartographers combined topography, labels and ornament on a single page.
