Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Very Good
Confirmed: Yes
Date Acquired: 19/2/2017
Dealers ID No.: #25208
Description: Frederik de Wit began his career as an apprentice to Willem Blaeu before establishing his own publishing house in Amsterdam in 1648 under the sign De Drie Crabben (the Three Crabs). In 1655, he renamed his shop Witte Pascaert (the White Chart), from which he issued a wide range of cartographic works, including single-sheet maps, wall maps, atlases, and sea charts. Renowned for their refined engraving and vivid hand-colouring, De Wits productions rank among the most admired of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography.nHis major publications include Atlas Belgium (1667), Atlas (c. 1670), Atlas Minor (1670), Zee Atlas (1675), Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas (1675), and Atlas Major (1690s).nThis chart of the Pacific Ocean was first published in Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas in 1675 and reflects Dutch navigational knowledge up to the mid-seventeenth century. California appears as an island, while the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand derive from Abel Tasmans voyages of 164243 and 1644. The map also includes Willem Janszoons 1606 voyage along the Gulf of Carpentaria and and the southern coast of New Guinea. Its overall design follows a prototype by Johannes van Loon (1661) and subsequently influenced charts by Pieter Goos (1666), Hendrick Doncker (1669), and John Seller (1670).Decorative elements include a portrait of Ferdinand Magellan within the title cartouche, a mythological scene featuring Neptune and sea creatures, and four galleons traversing the ocean, reinforcing the maps maritime emphasis.
Engraver: Hooghe, Romeyn de
First published: Orbis maritimus ofte zee atlas Amsterdam: Frederick de Wit, 1675
Image Size (cm): 56.5×49.3
Mapmaker: Wit, Frederick de (1630-1706)
Other states: Second (1715) Third (1745)
Price: 3,000
Primary Category: Sea Charts
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022
References: Suárez, The Early Mapping of the Pacific, 103, Fig 95; Clancy, 119, map 7.15.
Sheet size (cm): 61.5×52.5
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1675
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