Le Planisphere Autremont La Carte Du Monde Terrestre was Pierre DuVal's first full-size world map. Issued in 1659 as a pair of maps separate from the atlas, this important world map incorporated then-new cartographic information about the Pacific Northwest along with the long-held and controversial notion of a Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

In this Western Hemisphere map, present-day Alaska is depicted as the hugely oversized and insular land mass, Terre de Iesso. This incorrect cartographic information was attributed to the 1643 DeVries discovery of a territory "separated from Asia and America by large straits or expanses of sea." Above the island of California, the map also notes: "It is said this strait communicates between the two seas North and South".

The counterpart Eastern Hemisphere map shows the most up-to-date topographic information gathered at the time about Asia and Africa. The partially known and mapped Australian continent attributes and dates cartographic details discovered by Dutch explorers between 1616 and 1628. DuVal's mentor was his uncle, Nicolas Sanson, the 'father of French cartography".

DuVal was geographer to the King of France; he enjoyed access to the most up to date information from the great 17th-century voyages of discovery. These comprehensive and detailed maps are available as a specially-priced pair.