[Hand-colored map]: "Amerique Septentrionale" [from] Description de l'Univers (1683)

by (Manesson-Mallet, Allain)

$350 · Offered by Between the Covers

[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683]. Unbound. One octavo leaf (pages 271-272) removed from Manesson-Mallet's classic five-volume work *Description de l'Univers*. Page 271 with a hand-colored engraved map: "Amerique Septentrionale" depicting North and Central America, including "Nouvelle France," "Virginie," "Floride," and "Nouveau Mexique." The letterpress verso (p. 272) prints the beginning of..... More

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