The plates and stock of De Wit's atlas were sold to Covens & Mortier in 1710, who sold the atlas for a long period. Most of these were printed from plates used for Janssonius and Blaeu town atlases, respectively.Īfter he died in 1706, his widow continued the shop until 1709. He produced two volumes with in total 260 plans and views. NOTES Dpr of the 1556 Paris edition (dprs of a second copy and a third copy are also available). However, as a privilege was granted in 1689, the annotation 'cum privilegio' marks an edition after 1688.Īround 1700 Frederick de Wit entered the market with a town atlas. His earliest dates on maps engraved are 1659 (Regni Daniae) and 1660 (Worldmap).įrederick de Wit published several world atlases, a sea atlas, and an atlas of the Netherlands. At that time, he lived on the Kalverstraat "in de Witte Pascaert", where he stayed until his death in 1706. However, his name was not written in the Guild of St. Although De Wit was a Catholic, which meant that he was not favoured at the time by the city council, he was awarded the honour of being listed as one of the "excellent citizens" on the roll of the city council in the years 1694-1704. Through his marriage with Maria van der Waag of Amsterdam in 1661, he obtained citizenship of the city where he had been working since 1648 and where he became one of the most famous engravers of maps of the second half of the 17th century. But our copy is circa 1690.The engraver and map-seller, Frederick de Wit, was born in Gouda (Netherlands) in 1630 as a son of Hendrick Fredericksz de Wit. The Atlas Minor is a fine and comprehensive composite atlas, and one of a series of large atlases compiled and sold by the Visscher family of art dealers and cartographers in the 17th century. a third Book, De Ratione Circuli & Stellarum Operationibus and another. Status Tirolensis 1 : 490000 Mollova mapov sbrka Valk. Majority of the maps are published by Visscher with additional maps by several other mapmakers. Of the Parts of this Poem, their Distribution and Order, and of our Endeavours. Circuli Austriaci Pars Occidentalior 1 : 550000 Mollova mapov sbrka Wit, Frederik de Covens, Johannes I. Visscher, by adding the city of Philadelphia and the name of the state Pennsylvania. tabula-quae-est-pars-septentrionalis-circuli-saxoniae-superioris-authore-f. About 1690 Visscher retouched the old plate of N.J. Circuli Austriaci Pars Occidentalior, Comprehendens Comitatum Principalem Tirolis Episcopatus Tridentinum et Brixensem Comitatus Brigantium Feldkirchiae Sonnebergae Pludentii etc. aethiopia-inferior-amp-huius-quidem-pars-australis-ex-delineationibus. His true innovation lies in his rendering of the New World, where he added small variations to the still widely unknown North American coastlines. This work is known for the high quality of engraving, exceptionally fine ornament, and accurate geographical information. Circuli Austriaci pars occidentalior, comprehendens Comitatum principalem Tirolis episcopatus Tridentinum et Brixensem. Visscher is well-known for the depth of accuracy within his maps, and for embellishing the maps' beauty further with small detailing. Consists of 127 engraved maps, hand-colored in outline and full, with elegant title cartouche. With Engraved allegorical title page, on sheet 51x31, printed in full color, followed by letterpress half title page. Seventeenth century atlas of the World by Nicholas Visscher. Includes decorative title and scale bar cartouches and coat of arms. Shows administrative boundaries, towns, forests, waterways, canals and landmarks. Hand colored in outline engraved map of the eastern part of Austria. This image 11755.069 is a part of image group 11755.000. Pictura sancti Joannis Nepomuceni ex anno 1722 in inscriptione nomen Czechia legitur. Zoomable full resolution image available at.
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