This handsome, uncommon map of Portugal features towns, churches, castles, fortifications, battlefields, and more. A small inset plan shows the environs of Porto (Oporto). The large title cartouche is embellished with allegorical figures and the coat of arms. Pierre DuVal, nephew and pupil of Nicolas Sanson, was an important French cartographer who published a large number of maps and atlases. His brother-in-law, Le Pere Placide, an Augustine monk, published only one atlas (Cartes de Geographie) with revised versions of DuVal's maps. This map was published by DuVal's widow, Marie Desmarests, who re-issued Placide's maps; her imprint is in the lower right corner. Engraved by Inselin.

References:

Condition: A

Clean and bright with contemporary outline color in the map and later color in the decorative elements, on a sturdy sheet with a church watermark and minor marginal soiling.