18th Century Spanish Map Claims to Show Dokdo as Korean Territory

Here is the latest map that is being claimed to show Dokdo as Korean territory:

Spain has shown President Moon Jae-in an old map that describes Dokdo as part of the territory of Korea, according to Cheong Wa Dae, Wednesday (local time). 

The map showing came amid Japan’s renewed territorial claim over Dokdo, Korea’s easternmost islets, on its website for the Tokyo Olympics. 

According to presidential spokeswoman Park Kyung-mee, Moon visited the Spanish senate library after delivering a speech at the senate.

The library officials showed Moon the map, titled “Royaume de Coree” (Kingdom of Korea), which was made by French geographer and cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782), in 1737 when the territory was known as the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910). 

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but I doubt this map depicts Dokdo. Just looking at the map the islands are not even geographically where they should be and according to the article the island that is supposedly Dokdo was not even spelled right. When you think about it why would a Spanish cartographer include Dokdo on this map back then as Korean territory when they would have just been worthless rocks? The only thing that makes Dokdo valuable today is the territorial waters that it brings with it in modern times which did not exist back then.