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C1681
Typus Orbis Terrarum
Mapmaker:
Rare early miniature world map by Pierre Duval showing Australia with discoveries made on his voyage 1642-44 while most southern landmass is named, Terra Antarctica. In North America California is shown as an island while the Great Lakes are only partially … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Typus Orbis Terrarum
Date:
C1681
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
102mm
x 127mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1681
Description:
Rare early miniature world map by Pierre Duval showing Australia with discoveries made on his voyage 1642-44 while most southern landmass is named, Terra Antarctica.
In North America California is shown as an island while the Great Lakes are only partially mapped, and a large lake in the west spawns a river that flows into the Pacific. China is shown with a huge bulge to its eastern coastline and Korea is shown as an island. Antarctica appears as a very large continent.
German edition published by Johann Hoffman.
From Duval, Geographiae universalis pars prior, Nuremberg MDCLXXXI (1681).
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.
