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Le monde ou La géographie universelle : contenant les descriptions, les cartes, et le blason, des principaux païs du monde.

Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682 · 1676 · A Paris : Chez l'auteur, proche du Palais, sur le quay de l'Orloge, au coin de la ruë de Harlay · 28 pictures

A geography book published in Paris in 1676 by Pierre Duval, a royal geographer, with its descriptions, maps and heraldry aimed at a general reader. Its pictures are small engraved maps printed across facing pages, showing regions such as Savoy, Switzerland and the Rhine with place names, borders and decorative cartouches, which a designer might take as a model for antique cartographic layout and lettering.

Geography · Imprint 1676

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