Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Duval, Pierre
Title:
Sunda Islands - Insulae Sindae
Date:
c1682
Medium:
copper engraving, later colour
Size:
9.8 x 12.2 cm
Description:
The Frenchman Pierre Du Val, was the nephew and pupil of Nicolas Sanson. He became geographer to the King of France. In 1660 he produced a world geography which included series of eighty three miniature maps. This attractive miniature map of Asia would have been published in 1682 in Duval's "Le monde ou la geographie universelle".
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Item Code:
MA6941
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