De Wit, Frederick

Folio (550 x 340mm.), engraved allegorical title showing the globe surmounted by the figure of atlas, printed index listing 105 subjects and 2 additional indexes from different volumes, 107 double-page engraved maps of all parts of the world, 2 additional maps tipped in at end, contemporary hand colour, contemporary vellum, ties, some small splits at folds, many maps with oxidization of green causing cracking, particularly maps of Africa and Asia, Morea torn (with loss)

Koeman III Wit 11

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In common with other de Wit atlases, this contains maps formerly form the plate-stock of other Amsterdam publishers.

This substantial composite atlas is characteristic of de Wit’s terrestrial atlases assembled post-1688, when he inserted his newly-granted privilege on his maps. This is an atlas of the countries of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, fronted by maps of the world and four continents; it is supplemented with a small number of maps by the Visscher family, Nicolas Persoy’s scarce maps of Brittany and Normandy and older maps by Janssonius. Inserted at the end are folio maps of Etruria by Teodoro Vercruysse (1724) and of the Duchy of Mantua by Gabriel Bodenehr (1734).