Socotra, 17th Century

A dear friend of mine, a psychologist, is also a collector of ancient maps. He has just come across the picture above and is kindly willing to share with you. The author is Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), a French cartographer, engineer and soldier. The picture is from his work “Description de L’Univers” (ed. Denys Thierry, 1683/86, Paris). This geographic and ethnographic encyclopaedic atlas, which complete title is too long to be worth stating here, was published in five volumes: the map of Socotra is in the third one, page 95.