Mallet, Allain Manesson

Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706) was a 17th century French cartographer and military engineer. He started his career as a musketeer in the army of Louis XIV, became a Sergeant-Major in the artillery and an Inspector of Fortifications. He later served under Alfonso VI, King of Portugal, during the Portuguese Restoration War before returning to France at the conclusion of that conflict in 1668, where his military engineering and mathematical background led to an appointment teaching mathematics at la Petite Écurie. He is best known for his extensive work Description de L'Univers (1683) in 5 volumes, a copious publication which contains maps of all parts of the then-known world (both ancient and modern), star maps, prints of the costumes, customs, cities and religions of many nations, and astronomical prints. Mallet himself drew most of the figures that were engraved for this book. First published in 1683 in Paris with French text, a second, German, edition was published in Frankfurt in 1684, with the addition of German titles to the plates outside the printed border. The philosopher Pierre Bayle considered the work "a curious rabble of a thousand things on Geography and History”. Mallet also published Les Travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la Guerre (1684) in 3 volumes and La Géométrie pratique (1702). Alexandre Dumas honoured him with a mention in the Vicomte de Bragelonne .

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LIBYA. Plan & view of the town & port of Tripoli. Barbary. MALLET 1683 old map

SWEDISH EMPIRE. Sweden Finland Livonia Bothnia Baltic. 'Suede'. MALLET 1683 map

SWEDISH EMPIRE. Sweden Finland Livonia Ingria Baltic. 'Suede'. MALLET 1683 map

CORSICA. 'Isle de Corse'. Elba. Decorative. France. MALLET 1683 old map

BAGHDAD. 'Bagdet'. Walled city & fortifications plan. Iraq. MALLET 1683 map

DODECANESE. Nicaria (Ikaria) et Palmosa/Patmos. Greek islands. MALLET 1683 map

DODECANESE. Scarpanto (Karpathos) Cassio (Kasos). Greece Aegean. MALLET 1683 map

CYCLADES. Mykonos Naxos Donousa Ktapodia Ikaria. Greek Islands. MALLET 1683 map

ANCIENT ITALY. Decorative. 'Ancienne Italie'. MALLET 1683 old antique map

ARABIA. Bahrain UAE Mecca Medina Oman Muscat 'Arabie Moderne'. MALLET 1683 map

BAGHDAD 'Bagdet' Walled city & fortifications plan Iraq MALLET Trimmed 1683 map

ANCIENT ITALY NORTH. Gallia Cisalpina. Ancienne Italie Septent. MALLET 1683 map

ANCIENT ITALY SOUTH. Magna Graecia. Ancienne Italie Meridionale. MALLET 1683 map

ITALY. Italian states. 'Italie'. Decorative. MALLET 1683 old antique map chart

NW ITALY. Po valley Liguria Lombardy Piedmont Parma Genoa Milan. MALLET 1683 map

CENTRAL ITALY. Duchy of Tuscany & Papal/Ecclesiastical States. MALLET 1683 map

KINGDOM OF NAPLES. 'Royaume de Naples. Southern Italy. MALLET 1683 old map

ROME. City plan showing churches Colosseum Vatican St Peter's. MALLET 1683 map

CANDIA/CRETE & CYCLADES. Milos Sifnos Astypalaia. Aegean. MALLET 1683 old map

CANDIA/CRETE CYCLADES Milos Santorini Astypalaia Anafi Sikinos. MALLET 1683 map

ASTYPALAIA. 'Isle de Stampalia'. Dodecanese islands. Greece. MALLET 1683 map

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