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DE WIT, Frederick (1610-1698). Atlas Maior. Amsterdam: Joachim Ottens, [circa 1705].
2° (540 x 340mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, letterpress list of maps, 131 hand-coloured engraved maps, numbered in a contemporary hand, all double-page on guards, 5 folding. (Title, index and 19 maps neatly mounted on paper, 3 with loss to margins, world map with slight loss at lower fold, some staining and light discolouration.) Old vellum (rebacked and restored).
An interesting de Wit atlas with Joachim Ottens' imprint, not recorded by Koeman. Koeman does note an atlas, Wit 14, dated after 1688 which has an Ottens imprint, but the inclusion in this copy of the de Wit index leaf, listing 130 maps (one added in manuscript), would suggest a later date of circa 1705 cf. Wit 18. The atlas covers the whole world and includes 9 maps of Asia, 5 of Africa and 5 of the Americas, with many maps by Visscher, Allard, Gerard Valk, and P.Mortier, in addition to those by de Wit.
2° (540 x 340mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, letterpress list of maps, 131 hand-coloured engraved maps, numbered in a contemporary hand, all double-page on guards, 5 folding. (Title, index and 19 maps neatly mounted on paper, 3 with loss to margins, world map with slight loss at lower fold, some staining and light discolouration.) Old vellum (rebacked and restored).
An interesting de Wit atlas with Joachim Ottens' imprint, not recorded by Koeman. Koeman does note an atlas, Wit 14, dated after 1688 which has an Ottens imprint, but the inclusion in this copy of the de Wit index leaf, listing 130 maps (one added in manuscript), would suggest a later date of circa 1705 cf. Wit 18. The atlas covers the whole world and includes 9 maps of Asia, 5 of Africa and 5 of the Americas, with many maps by Visscher, Allard, Gerard Valk, and P.Mortier, in addition to those by de Wit.