Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreisses, In sich begreiffend Verschiedene Vorstellungen der Welt, allgemeine und besondere Land-Charten der alten und neuen Erd-Beschreibung. Erster Theil. Die Beschreibung der Himmels- und Erd-Kugel [Volume 1]

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The first volume of the "Description of the Universe" by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), a French cartographer and engineer; his military engineering and mathematical background led to his position teaching mathematics at the court of Louis XIV. Both the original French work (Description de L'Universe, 1683) and this German translation comprise 5 volumes. The first volume provides an introductory summary of the astronomical and meteorological knowledge of the time; this is followed by a description of the lands lying below the North Pole. The volume features an engraved frontispiece with allegorical figures, two full-page portraits (Louis XIV, Mallet) and 111 plates with 111 numbered full-page illustrations (copper engravings): armillary spheres, world maps, models of the universe, star maps (constellations), celestial phenomena, planets, world maps according to old geographers, various maps of regions (especially the Arctic), various ships, various vistas, figures of Samoyeds (Nenets), Greenlanders and indigenous population of Novaya Zemlya. Many astronomical illustrations are accompanied with vistas of ports. Some engravings are signed by Johann Jacob Vogel, an engraver and etcher, active in Frankfurt and Nuremberg. Fraktur typeface; pages are decorated with headpieces and initials. This copy (or edition?) does not contain the author's dedication (4 pages) and preface (4 pages); they were obviously never bound into the volume. Two illustrations are numbered as no. 90 although one of them is identical with what is numbered as no. 80 (Ancient World) in a different 1684 version/edition of this volume; there is no plate no. 84 in this version/edition (it was never bound into the volume); in the different version/edition, this missing illustration (maps of the Mediterranean) is unnumbered. Several plates are slightly smaller and untrimmed along bottom edge. /// Parchment binding with coloured edges; hardback, [2]+138+[10] pp., [3]+111 plates, 8° (16 x 23 cm), parchment cover slightly worn, with spots and ink stains, backstrip with handwritten title and remnants of paper label, edges yellowed and foxed, some pages and plates slightly foxed, especially along fore edge, other signs of wear and age are very rare (tiny chips, tiny ink stain, worn corner etc.; text and engravings not affected), condition: very good Book Language/s: German.

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Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreisses, In sich begreiffend Verschiedene Vorstellungen der Welt, allgemeine und besondere Land-Charten der alten und neuen Erd-Beschreibung. Erster Theil. Die Beschreibung der Himmels- und Erd-Kugel [Volume 1]

Verlag

Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]: In Verlegung Johann David Zunners [Johann David Zunner] 1684

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Hardcover

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