An edition of Description de l'univers (1683)

Description de l'univers

contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la geographie ancienne & moderne : les plans & les profils des principales villes & des autres lieux plus considerables de la terre ; avec les portraits des souverains qui y commandent, leurs blasons, titres & livrées : et les mœurs, religions, gouvernemens & divers habillemens de chaque nation. Dediee au roy

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An edition of Description de l'univers (1683)

Description de l'univers

contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la geographie ancienne & moderne : les plans & les profils des principales villes & des autres lieux plus considerables de la terre ; avec les portraits des souverains qui y commandent, leurs blasons, titres & livrées : et les mœurs, religions, gouvernemens & divers habillemens de chaque nation. Dediee au roy

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Table of Contents

(from added engraved t.p.) v. 1: Description de l'univers
v. 2: Asie ancienne et moderne
v. 3: Afrique ancienne et moderne
v. 4: Description de l'univers de l'Europe ancienne et moderne
v. 5: Description de l'univers suite de l'Europe ancienne et moderne des Terres Australes et de l'Amerique.

Edition Notes

Each vol. has added engraved t.p., with illustration.

Colophons, v. 1 and 3, read: Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le premier jour de septembre mil six cent quatre-vingt deux.

Colophon, v. 4, reads: Achevé d'imprimer pour la premier fois le dernier jour de decembre, mil six cent quatre-vingt-deux.

Colophon, v. 5, reads: Achevé d'imprimer pour la premier fois le dernier jour de mars, mil six cent quatre-vingt-trois.

Signatures: v. 1: pi⁸ (-pi1) ẽ² A-O⁸ P⁸ (P2 + chi1) Q-T⁸ V⁴ (V4 verso blank); v. 2: ã⁴ A-T⁸ X⁸; v. 3: ã⁴ 2A-2B⁸ C-R⁸ (R8 verso blank); v. 4: ã⁶ A-Z⁸ chi² (ã1 blank); v. 5: ã6 A-F⁸ *⁸ G-2D⁸ 2E⁴ chi1.

Vol. 1: [18], 228, [2], 229-302, [10] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: [8], 299, [21] p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 3: [8], 256, [16] p., [8] leaves of plates; v. 4: [12], 328, [44] p.; v. 5: [12], 81, [2], 82-83, [2], 84-85, [2], 86-87, [2], 88-89, [2], 90-91, [2], 92-93, [2], 94-95, [2], 96-400, [42] p.

Several pages are misnumbered.

Maps in v. 3, p. 13, v. 4, p. 181, and v. 5, p. 47 have been pasted over what appears to be another impression of the same map.

Errata: v. 1, p. [7] at end; v. 2, p. [20-21] at end; v. 3, p. [13] at end; v. 4, p. [41-43] at end; v. 5, p. [41-42] at end.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Echeverria-Wilkie. French image, 683/1.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 119-120.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. brasileira do periodo colonial (rev. ed.), 2: 511.

Digital version of maps available on Luna Imaging.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Earl of Chesterfield: bookplate; M. Prenost: inscription.

The Physical Object

Pagination
5 v. :

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OL25939835M
Internet Archive
descriptiondelun00mane_2

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