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Description

Scarce 4 sheet map of Asia, published in Paris by Pierre Du Val.

Du Val's 4 sheet map of provides a fine look at late 17th Century Asia, along with explanatory text in the side panels. Japan (Niphon) is shown on a nearly horizontal model, with Korea properly shown as a peninsula.

The Great Wall is shown. Detailed curiously shaped Philippines, with a distorted Mindanao Island. Excellent detail in the Indian Ocean. In the near East, there are many trade routes shown, extendig from Turkey and Arabia, through Persia and on to India.

A nice example of this scarce detailed wall map of Asia.

Condition Description
4-sheet map, unjoined. Minor foxing in right tables.
Pierre Du Val Biography

Pierre Duval (1618-1683) was a French geographer, cartographer, and publisher who worked in Abbeville and Paris during the seventeenth century. He was born in the former city, in northeast France, before moving to Paris. Duval was the nephew of the famous cartographer Nicolas Sanson, from whom he learned the mapmaker's art and skills. Both men worked at the royal court, having followed the royal request for artists to relocate to Paris. In addition to numerous maps and atlases, Du Val's opus also includes geography texts. He held the title of geographe ordinaire du roi from 1650 and died in 1683, when his wife and daughters took over his business.