DUVAL Pierre. Cartes de géographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles, avec leurs divisions régulières. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1672. In-folio, brown calf, spine decorated, smooth edges (period binding worn, headbands, corners and spinebands missing and worn). This copy contains: an engraved title-frontispiece dated 1672; engraved non-map plates: Alphabet et définition des termes dont on se sert en géographie, 1669; Les tables de géographie réduites en un jeu de cartes, 1669, Table générale de géographie, 1667; Les Princes de l'Empire d'Allemagne dont l'Empereur est le chef, n.d. Three double-page letterpress leaves for the Introduction à la géographie (1669), the Description du royaume d'Alger and the histoire abrégé du royaume d'Alger, one plate Sphère Armillaire,(1665). 53 double-page maps by Pierre Duval: Planisphere or general map of the world 1668; America otherwise the New World 1664; Africa 1664; Asia 1664; Europe revised and enlarged 1670; The East Indies 1665; Canada 1664; The coasts of the kingdoms of Fez, Algiers Tunis and Barbary 1664; Map kingdom of Algiers 1665; Algiers in Africa 1665; Costes of Guinea 1671; Map of the island of Madagascar 1666; The Malthe Islands 1667; The Ocean near Europe 1666; Europe 1668; The Mediterranean Sea; France, 1668; The kingdom of Aquitaine 1671; The kingdoms of Burgundy and Arles 1671; The kingdom of Eastern France 1671; The kingdom of Western France 1671; Map of the diocese and bishopric of Normandy 1654; The isle of France the Valois; The Duchy of Aiguillon; Map of the waters of the Black Mountain, for the new canal of Languedoc, 1666 ; Spain 1663; Les dix sept provinces des Pays Bas; Carte particulière de la Flandre 1667; La Flandre Gallicane 1667; Provinces méridionales des Pays Bas 1670; Comtés d'Artois et de Hainault 1671; Le Cambresis et le Hainault; Le Luxembourg 1668; Duché de Brabant 1668; Comté de Bourgogne et Franche Comté 1668; la Suisse; L'Italie 1663; Le Piémont et Montferrat; L'Allemagne 1663 ; Danemarq, Sweden and Poland; Map of the Kingdom of Danemarq; Muscovy or Great and White Russia; Empire of the Turks; Map from Hungary to Austria 1664; British Isles 1665; Sicily 1672; Isle of Candy 1672; Orbis Vetus 1663; Map of the Roman Empire 1663; Terra Sancta 1666; Terra Sancta ubi regnum Israel; Patriarchatus Romanus and Tabula geographica locorum 1660.? Most with coloured border highlights. And several maps not by Pierre Duval: "Description de la France" by Iollain, 1699; "Normandia ducatus" by G Blaeu; "Comté et Gouvernement de Provence" by Nolin (cut short with loss of part of the letters in the lower margin); "Concilia Oecumenica" by G Sanson 1667, (all unenhanced). Some maps have a cut in the central fold, minor wetness and minor defects from use. One map partly torn but not missing, some writing in margins. Some foxing. The flyleaf serves as a handwritten table for the volume. Expert : Mr François Jullien