C1681

[World Map]

Mapmaker:

Rare early double hemisphere world map by Pierre Duval showing a pre Tasman depiction the Southern Continent named, Terra Australis Incognita. New Guinea is shown separated by a river to Terra Australis Incognita. In North America California is shown as a peninsula while … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

[World Map]

Date:

C1681

Mapmaker:

Pierre Duval (1618 - 1683)

Condition:

Small repaired tear to lower right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition, with folds as issued.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size:

280mm

x 150mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1681

Description:

Rare early double hemisphere world map by Pierre Duval showing a pre Tasman depiction the Southern Continent named, Terra Australis Incognita. New Guinea is shown separated by a river to Terra Australis Incognita.

In North America California is shown as a peninsula while the Great Lakes are not mapped.South America is shown connected to the Terra Australis Incognita and has an extended eastern coast.

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.

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