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Pierre Du Val - Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne
Certificate of Authentication
This is to certify that the item illustrated and described below is a genuine and
original antique map or print that was published on or near the given date.
Dr Leendert Helmink, Ph.D.
Cartographer
Pierre Du Val
First Published
Paris, 1663
This edition
1663
Size
10.0 x 12.5 cms
Technique
Copper engraving
Stock number
18739
Condition
excellent
Description
Duval's rare map of New Spain, with the American southwest and Florida. First state. Not in Burden.
Pierre Du Val (c.1619-1683)
Pierre Du Val was one of the most influential French mapmakers of the third quarter of the seventeenth century. He was the son-in-law and apprentice of Nicolas Sanson, the foremost French mapmaker of the period. From 1650, he was the official royal Geographer to the King of France Louis XIV, who had encouraged him to move to Paris. He published a wide range of atlases, individual maps of the world and the continents, as well as wall maps. His work was of great significance.