ASIAN CONTINENT 1680 FREDERICK DE WIT UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

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ASIAN CONTINENT 1680 FREDERICK DE WIT UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
ASIAN CONTINENT 1680 FREDERICK DE WIT UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
Description
Accuratissima totius Asiæ Tabula in Omnes Partes divisa, de novo Correcta, ac in lucem edita Per Fredericum de Wit Amstelodami Cum Privilegio D.D. Ordinum Hollandiæ Westfrisiæq
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Description:
Striking and highly detailed fine unusual
rare large format copper engraved map of Asia, by Frederik de Witt. Issued in 1680, the map covers the entirety Asian Continent, as well as Cyprus, Middle East, eastern Bulgaria, Crimean Peninsula, Middle East and north-eastern Africa. Includes northern tip of Australia, named "Hollandia Nova". The map is filled with excellent topographic detail on cities, towns, rivers, lakes, reliefs, forests and islands. The large decorative title cartouche embellished with a monkey, two birs, a camel and several marchands. A compass rose and several sailing ships complete the map. Issued by Frederik de Wit in the 1680 edition of his Atlas Novus
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Date:
1680 ( umdated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm 61,1 x 52,5
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on strong paper. Paper with chains and wiremark. Map old original colored. Small margin to the top. Wide lower margin. Wide lateral margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Map professionally washed and restored. Conditions are as you can see in the images
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Mapmaker:
Frederik de Wit (1629 - 1706) was a Dutch Golden Age cartographer active in the second half of the 17th and the early 18th centuries. De Wit was born of middle class Protestant stock in the western Netherlandish town of Gouda. He relocated to Amsterdam sometime before 1648, where he worked under Willem Blaeu. His first attributed engraved map, a plan of Haarlem for Antonius Sanderus' Flandria Illustrata, was issued around this time. He struck out on his own in 1654. The first chart that De Wit personally both drew and engraved was most likely his 1659 map of Denmark, REGNI DANIÆ Accuratissima delineatio Perfeckte Kaerte van ‘t CONJNCKRYCK DENEMARCKEN. His great wall map of the world and most famous work, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula appeared one year later. Following the publication of his wall map De Wit quickly rose in prominence as a both cartographer and engraver. He married Maria van der Way in 1661 and through her became a citizen of Amsterdam in 1662. Around this time he also published his first major atlas, a composite production ranging in size from 17 to over 150 maps and charts. Other atlases and individual maps followed. In 1689 De Wit was granted at 15 year Privilege by the Dutch States General. The Privilege was a kind of early copyright that protected his exclusive rights to print and publish his maps. He was recognized with the honorific 'Good Citizen' in 1694. De Wit died in 1706 after which his wife Maria continued publishing his maps until about 1710. Though De Wit did have a son, Franciscus, he had no interest in the map trade, being a prosperous stockfish merchant. Instead, on her own retirement, Maria sold most De Wit maps and plates at a public auction. Most were acquired by Pieter Mortier and laid the groundwork for the 1721 rise of Covens and Mortier, the largest Dutch cartographic publishing house of the 18th century
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