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An unusual miniature map of Asia by the French mapmaker Pierre Duval published in Paris c. 1677. This is a second or later state of this map and shows Corea as a Peninsula and Iesso (Hokkaido) appears to be attached to the Continent of Asia, although not named.
The earliest state of this map from 1660 showed an insular Corea and also a Terre Iesso in the north east seperated from the Continent of Asia by Detroit Iesso.
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 1677 in Duval's "Le Monde ou la Geographie Universelle".
King, Geoffrey Miniature Antique Maps, 2nd Edition. 2003
Sweet, Michael / Antiques of the Orient Mapping the Continent of Asia 1994
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