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De Wit Portolan Sea Chart of Europe
De Wit Portolan Sea Chart of Europe
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Totius Europae Victoria...
Frederic De Wit (1630-1706).
Engraved map with original hand color.
Amsterdam, 1675.
20 x 35 1/2 inches sheet, 27 1/2 x 43 inches framed. “The most striking and decorative map in de Wit’s Orbis Maritimus.” Ginsberg (Seacharts Norway). Very good copy. A beautiful Dutch Portolan style sea chart showing the area from Morocco to Spitsbergen and Iceland. It covers whole Europe, oriented to the West. Illustrated with numerous rhumb lines, depictions of elephants in North Africa and goats in Scandinavia, embellished with 3 scales and a title cartouche with winged putti holding navigational instruments and coats of arms of the various countries. Aside from its multitude of decorative elements, de Wit has charted the eastern half of the Mediterranean in the area occupied by North Africa. 7A3a. Koeman IV, M. Wit 1.
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