Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 – 1706)
was a French well travelled military engineer, mathematician and cartographer. He made a career in the army of King Louis XIV who appointed him „Maitre de Mathematiques“. His main work is the five-volume cosmography „Description de l‘Univers“, published in 1683 which describes the landscapes, villages, ports and people with their habits and traditions in the regions of the known world. The atlas also contains numerous maps, including a map of Iceland and this map of the North Atlantic. Two years later Mallet published the German edition titled „Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreysses“ which also comprises a map of Iceland.
Comments by the collector
Though Iceland is not to be seen on this map I bought it fits thematically to other maps of Alain Manesson Mallet (No. 8, 53, 90, 179) in the „Schulte Collection“.