*** Rare first edition ***
Asia Minor through to Armenia and Babylon by Pierre Duval. 1653
Pierre Duval (Abbeville, 1618 - 1683)
French geographer, nephew and pupil of Nicolas Sanson. He was encouraged by Louis XIV to move to Paris. In 1650 he became Géographe Ordinaire du Roy.
Pierre Mariette (1602-1658)
Bookseller, printseller, printer, and publisher, located in the Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris. On February 12, 1644, Pierre Mariette acquired most of Melchior Tavernier's fund. In 1646, he had a series of maps by Blaeu copied and asked Abraham Peyrounin to engrave them. In the meantime, he published the works of Nicolas Sanson. In 1650, he published the atlas Théâtre Géographique de France. A second edition followed in 1653. He later contributed to Sanson's atlas, the Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde. Many maps of Mariette's Théatre appeared in later editions of Sanson's Cartes générales.
Tabula Itineris Decies Mille Graecorum sub Cyro contra fratrem suum Artaxerxem Regem Persarum.
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Old, antique map of Asia Minor through to Armenia and Babylon by Pierre Duval.
Title: Tabula Itineris Decies Mille Graecorum sub Cyro contra fratrem suum Artaxerxem Regem Persarum.
Eorumque Reditus sub Xenophonte secu[n]dum ipsius Xenophontis commentaria.
Ex Conatibuus Geographicis P. du Val Abbavillaei, Christianissimi Galliarum Regis, Geographj.
Lutetiae Parisorum, apud Petrum Mariette, via Iacobea sub Insigni Spej. cim privilegio.
I Somer sculpsit.
With a dedication to François de L'isle signed P. du Val, Géographe du Roy 1653.
Engraver: Jean Somer.
Date of the first edition: 1653.
Date of this map: 1653.
Date on map: 1653.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 370 x 510mm (14.57 x 20.08 inches).
Sheet size: 485 x 640mm (19.09 x 25.2 inches).
Verso: Blank.
Condition: Original coloured in outline, excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.
Separate publication.
Pierre Duval (Abbeville, 1618 - 1683)
French geographer, nephew and pupil of Nicolas Sanson. He was encouraged by Louis XIV to move to Paris. In 1650 he became Géographe Ordinaire du Roy.
Pierre Mariette (1602-1658)
Bookseller, printseller, printer, and publisher, located in the Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris. On February 12, 1644, Pierre Mariette acquired most of Melchior Tavernier's fund. In 1646, he had a series of maps by Blaeu copied and asked Abraham Peyrounin to engrave them. In the meantime, he published the works of Nicolas Sanson. In 1650, he published the atlas Théâtre Géographique de France. A second edition followed in 1653. He later contributed to Sanson's atlas, the Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde. Many maps of Mariette's Théatre appeared in later editions of Sanson's Cartes générales.
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