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Description

Rare third edition of Van Deutecum's map of the 17 Provinces, in fantastic original (English) color.

According to an article written by Tony Campbell in 2002, there are two known examples of the map, the second of which was acquired by the Amsterdam University Library in 2002.

Condition Description
Fine original color. Trimmed at right and left margins, into the printed image.
Frederick De Wit Biography

De Wit (1629 ca.-1706) was a mapmaker and mapseller who was born in Gouda but who worked and died in Amsterdam. He moved to the city in 1648, where he opened a printing operation under the name of The Three Crabs; later, he changed the name of his shop to The White Chart. From the 1660s onward, he published atlases with a variety of maps; he is best known for these atlases and his Dutch town maps. After Frederik’s death in 1706, his wife Maria ran the shop for four years before selling it. Their son, Franciscus, was a stockfish merchant and had no interest in the map shop. At the auction to liquidate the de Wit stock, most of the plates went to Pieter Mortier, whose firm eventually became Covens & Mortier, one of the biggest cartography houses of the eighteenth century.