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Pierre Du Val
Terres Antarctiques dites autrement Australes et autrement inconnues
Certificate of Authentication and Description
This is to certify that the item illustrated and described below is a genuine antique
map, print or book that was first produced and published in 1663, today 362 years ago.
April 16, 2025
Cartographer(s)
Pierre Du Val
First Published
Paris, 1663
This edition
1676
Size
15.5 x 16.2 cms
Technique
Copper engraving
Stock number
18711
Condition
excellent
Description
NLA map RM 2360
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.