Pierre Duval
Illustration — Duval's 1664 map of Africa • Illustration — Le jeu des François et des Espagnols pour la Paix ("The game of the French and the Spanish for peace"), 1660 board game. Pierre Duval (1618–1683) was a French geographer. Pierre Duval was born in Abbeville.
Also recorded as Duval d'Abbwille · Pierre Du Val d'Abbéville
Pierre Duval
![[Scale: ca 1:2,095,000] Oriented to the West. From 1650, the date of Du Val's appointment as Geographer to the King. Title and dedication in 2 superimposed ornamental cartouches. Cartouche with the dedication to the arms of Jean Doujat (crowned griffin). [Size: 376 x 512 mm]. 1 map. Without text on the back. In a collection. Bound in mottled brown calfskin (17th century), spine with 7 bands, gilde](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/%C3%86gyptus_antiqua_divisa_in_nomos_authore_P._Duval_Abbeviliense_Regis_Christianissimi_geographo._R_2%3D_22._Pi%C3%A8ce_10.jpg/1280px-%C3%86gyptus_antiqua_divisa_in_nomos_authore_P._Duval_Abbeviliense_Regis_Christianissimi_geographo._R_2%3D_22._Pi%C3%A8ce_10.jpg)
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- 1683 · Paris.
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- France
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- geographer · cartographer · publisher
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Illustration — Duval's 1664 map of Africa • Illustration — Le jeu des François et des Espagnols pour la Paix ("The game of the French and the Spanish for peace"), 1660 board game. Pierre Duval (1618–1683) was a French geographer. Pierre Duval was born in Abbeville.
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Born at Abbeville in 1619, died in Paris in 1683.
The recorded working language is French. Work by Pierre Duval is recorded in the collections of Australian National Maritime Museum and Het Scheepvaartmuseum.
Un demi-siècle après Pierre Bert, Pierre Duval publie dans sa Géographie universelle une mappemonde qui laisse voir de nombreuses zones d’ignorance cartographique. Elle signale des territoires dont l’intérieur est vierge d’exploration, leurs contours inachevés, incertains, ou inconnus. Ainsi de la Nouvelle-Zélande, incomplète, qui semble rattachée à la Magellanie, de la « Nouvelle Hollande » (l’Au
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- 1.Richard L. Betz. The mapping of Africa: a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700. Hes & de Graaf. 319. 2007. 978-90-6194-489-8.
- 2.Beaudouin, Denis. Duval Pierre. Dictionary of precision Instrument-makers and related craftsmen. Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL).
- 3.Gómez, Javier. Pierre Duval y el juego de la Guerra franco-española. Desperta Ferro Ediciones. 23 August 2022.
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