Mallet’s Map of Africa Publisher(s)_Printed by Cheffins for Kelly & Co. & Post Office Directory Office or Quingdeo

or Quingdeo

was published by a French bookseller in Napoleon’s short-lived client state

With a splendid binding by William F Matthews

Although nowhere so stated

Mallet’s Map of Africa Publisher(s)_Printed by Cheffins for Kelly & Co. & Post Office Directory Office or QuingdeoThis map of the continent of Africa is from Mallets Description de lUnivers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the following year. Mallet was a military engineer, cartographer and mathematician in the service of the French King, Louis XIV. Betz notes the relative lack of interior detail, owing to the small format of the map, but it generally follows a much earlier Blaeu interpretation of Africa. Condition &