De wit frederik 1629 (2 risultati)

Audio Book (DVD). Condizione: Very Good. Copper engraving, 480× 555 mm, printed on paper 540 × 615 mm. Verso blank. Original hand colour (some offsetting; lower central fold split and reinforced). First state, issued as a separately published map. Frederik de Wit worked in Amsterdam as an engraver and map-seller from 1648 and established his own printing and publishing business by the early 1650s. He was granted a privilege by the States of Holland and West Friesland in 1688/89. De Wit belonged to the generation that followed the great Amsterdam publishing houses of Jan Janssonius and Willem and Joan Blaeu, from which he acquired copperplates and other stock. He was not necessarily the originator of all the maps he published; his role encompassed that of editor, engraver, publisher, dealer, and assembler. As an editor, he sought to keep his maps up to date, frequently introducing corrections and additions. His map of Poland, for example, is known in at least twelve states, reflecting the continued revision and updating of the plate. The map is based on Nicolas Sanson's map of Poland (1655), but substantially expanded to the north-west to include Sweden and the Baltic coast, extending across the full breadth of the Baltic Sea and depicting Gotland and the Estonian and Livonian coastlines in considerable detail. It encompasses present-day Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, and substantial portions of Ukraine and western Russia. The internal administrative geography is rendered in exceptional detail, with the palatinates of the Polish Crown and the duchies of Lithuania delineated by hand-coloured boundary lines. Rivers, forests, towns, and political boundaries are clearly differentiated. A good copy of the first state of Frederik de Wit's map of Poland, one of the most comprehensive and cartographically authoritative maps of the region produced in the latter half of the seventeenth century. Imago Poloniae, K32/1.…

Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens' chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit?s chart of 1675. The chart, based on a similar Goos chart of 1666, was first published in de Wit?s Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas in 1675. It was updated to include Compagnies Land in a second state before 1690. Renard re-issued this state in ca. 1715, with this being the final state, which includes New Britain, Tartary, and more central Pacific islands, and was issued in Atlas van zeevaart en koophandel door de geheele weereldt circa 1745. The map shows details of seventeenth century Dutch discoveries in van Diemen's Land, the Gulf of Carpentaria and North Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. North of the islands of Japan is a large protrusion that extends into the border of the map, Terre de Iesso; to the east is another set of islands called Terre de la Compagnie. These North Pacific chimeras often appeared on maps of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this state, Tartary is included and the shapes of Iesso and Compagnies Land have been altered. The map prominently shows California as a large island. The map is highly decorative with a large cartouche including a portrait of Pacific navigator Magellan. Masted ships sail across the Pacific, with numerous rhumb lines crossing the sea. Collections: National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales The State Library of New South Wales and University of Melbourne hold examples dating circa 1675.…