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Frederick de Wit (1610-1698)
Germania Inferior, Sivè XVII Provinciarum Geographicae Generales ut et Particulares Tabulae. Amsterdam: for Frederick de Wit, [1690?]. 2° (522 x 320mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, list of plates in Dutch on verso, 25 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps, lettered in an early hand on versos, mounted on guards throughout. (Without text.) 18th-century roan-backed paper-covered boards with vellum corners (a few small repairs, some scuffing, wear at foot of spine).
THE ENLARGED SECOND EDITION OF DE WIT'S ATLAS OF THE NETHERLANDS, comprising 25 richly-coloured maps of the provinces. Various editions of the atlas are known, with Koeman citing differing examples from 1680, when the work was first published with only 20 maps. This edition contains the frontispiece copied from the atlas of the Netherlands by Nicolaes Visscher, and is without the 16 pages of Dutch text called for by Koeman. Cf. Koeman III, de Wit 25
Germania Inferior, Sivè XVII Provinciarum Geographicae Generales ut et Particulares Tabulae. Amsterdam: for Frederick de Wit, [1690?]. 2° (522 x 320mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, list of plates in Dutch on verso, 25 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps, lettered in an early hand on versos, mounted on guards throughout. (Without text.) 18th-century roan-backed paper-covered boards with vellum corners (a few small repairs, some scuffing, wear at foot of spine).
THE ENLARGED SECOND EDITION OF DE WIT'S ATLAS OF THE NETHERLANDS, comprising 25 richly-coloured maps of the provinces. Various editions of the atlas are known, with Koeman citing differing examples from 1680, when the work was first published with only 20 maps. This edition contains the frontispiece copied from the atlas of the Netherlands by Nicolaes Visscher, and is without the 16 pages of Dutch text called for by Koeman. Cf. Koeman III, de Wit 25