Mallet’s Plan of Constantinople Mapmaker(s)_Sébastien Pontault de Beaulieu Engraved chart of Oman

Engraved chart of Oman

His work on the British Isles is divided into three parts: a geographical description of the three kingdoms

The map was published in Fullarton's ‘Royal Illustrated Atlas’

Bishop and antiquary Edmund Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned a new series of maps from Morden

on the right of the map

Mallet’s Plan of Constantinople Mapmaker(s)_Sébastien Pontault de Beaulieu Engraved chart of OmanThis plan of Constantinople 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. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15. 5 x 11 cm, black and white, French text on verso.