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Superbly detailed map extending from Africa to Australia by the celebrated French mapmaker Pierre Duval, nephew of Nicholas Sanson, and one of the most influential and prolific Parisian mapmakers of the late seventeenth century. It is elegantly decorated with a … Read Full Description
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Superbly detailed map extending from Africa to Australia by the celebrated French mapmaker Pierre Duval, nephew of Nicholas Sanson, and one of the most influential and prolific Parisian mapmakers of the late seventeenth century. It is elegantly decorated with a scrolled title cartouche, dedication panel, compass roses and rhumb lines. The map records the following Dutch discoveries on the Australian coast: Hartog in the Eendracht 1616, Houtman in the Dordrecht and Amsterdam 1619, the van Leeuwin 1622, Carstensz in the Leijden 1623, Nuyts in the Gulden Zeepaert 1627 (incorrectly dated 1625), de Wit in the Vianen 1628 and the two voyages of Abel Tasman in the Heemskerck and Zeehaen 1642-3 and 1644. The map does not include details from the first recorded European discovery of Australia by Willem Jansz in the Duyfken on Cape York Peninsula 1606. The area between New Guinea and Cape York is uncharted and although Torres discovered the strait there in 1606, just four months after Jansz’s discoveries at Cape York, it is not known if he actually sighted the Australian coast. Spanish maps included the southern coast of New Guinea but Dutch maps were not to include the Strait until after Cook’s first voyage in 1770. Also noted are the Trial Islands near present-day Dampier, named after the ship the Trial, which had sailed for Java using the new sea route to the Indies pioneered by Brouwer in 1611. The Trial had struck unknown rocks on the night of 25 May 1622, and was wrecked with only forty-six survivors including Captain Brookes. In his subsequent report to the VOC authorities in Batavia, Brookes stated that the rocks were well west of their true position in an attempt to avoid blame for his error. Soon after a Dutch ship, the t Wapen van Hoorn, ran aground in a storm at the land of d’Eendracht but managed to sail after the storm abated. Concerned for the viability of their trade route, the VOC prioritised the accuracy of their charting in the region, with captains and pilots being required to record all shallows and reefs in the area. Due to their incorrect placement on the Gerritsz chart, the Trial Rocks remained a mystery for a further two hundred years until Phillip Parker King, sailing in the Mermaid, investigated their position in 1820 and finally confirmed that ‘there remains no doubt in my mind but that Barrow Island … are the same Tryal Rocks’. A scarce map produced in small numbers. From Cartes de Geographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles. References: Clancy p.86, ill.6.19, Clancy (R ) p.108, ill.106-107, Parry p.149, ill.5.28, Quirino p.109, Richardson p.106-107, Schilder p.414-415, Tooley 539, Tooley Pg 203-2.
Pierre Duval (1618 - 1683)
Pierre Duval was born in Abbeville, Duval began his cartographic career in Paris studying under his uncle, the celebrated geographer Nicolas Sanson. He was soon employed in editing maps for publication by the print-seller Pierre Mariette. By 1650, he had become Geographe du roi. According to royal letters found among his papers in 1683, Duval was employed as an officer in the Maison du Roi and received a modest wage of 350 livres. He sustained a publishing collaboration with Mariette until 1654, when he married Marie Desmaretz, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Following this, he established himself in Paris and produced maps and cartographic documents for a variety of Parisian map-sellers. Duval supplied manuscripts to Nicolas Berey, Girard Joillan, Nicolas Langlois, Estienne Vouillement and Antoine de Fer.
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