Description de l'univers
Description de l'univers is a 1683 Paris geographical atlas compiled by Allain Manesson Mallet and published by D. Thierry, with its pages of copperplate maps decorated with sea monsters, ships and allegorical figures. The pictures are small engraved maps of Africa, Guinea, Zocotora and Malta, combining precise coastlines and place names with lively decorative vignettes, cartouches and scale bars that a designer could borrow for antique map motifs.
