Title: Sceau des Grands Mogols (Seal of the Great Moguls).
Numbered, Titled, and annotated: Sceau des Grands Mogols. T. X. No. XVII.
Dimensions: Image 7 1/4" x 5 3/8". Sheet 10" x 7".
Publisher: François Didot 1689-1757. Colleges highly esteemed this prominent publisher. He even was elected Syndic of the Booksellers' Corporation. He published "Histoire des voyages..." (20 volumes), widely recognized for polygraphy perfection.
Edition: Histoire générale des voyages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les differentes langues de toutes les nations connues,... Enrichie de Cartes géographiques. Nouvellement composées sur les observations les plus authentiques,... Nouvelle édition, revue sur l'original anglois,...[Translated from English and compiled by Prévost].
Date: 1752.
Materials and Techniques: copper-plate engraving on laid paper, J. Sauvade Fils watermark.
Condition: Trimmed margins. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: Histoire des Voyages by Abbe Prevost. Paris, Tome X, 1752.
Museums and Libraries: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Title page https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49135772
The Engraving https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49135720
Note: The distinctive design of the seal - a central circle containing the name of the ruling emperor, surrounded by a series of smaller circles, like satellites in orbit, containing the names of his ancestors up to Timūr (1336–1405), each preceded by the filiative ibn - was a self-evident masterpiece of imperial symbolism. Gallop, A. (1999). The Genealogical Seal of the Mughal Emperors of India. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 9(1), 77-140. doi:10.1017/S1356186300015935.
The Mughal Empire, also spelled the Mogul or Moghul Empire, was an early modern Islamic empire in South Asia.