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This is the third state of the map. The first state lacks decorative borders around the map and illustrations between the cusps, which were added to the second state. In about 1680, the map was revised in the western hemisphere, with the following changes:
- Briggs model California as an island (flat top) changed to Sanson model (two fingers at the top)
- NW Coastline removed in state 3
- Nova Guinea appears in the western hemisphere in state 3
- Quiri Regio appears in the western hemisphere in state 3
- One large Great Lake has been replaced with a group of open-ended Great Lakes
- Anian and the Straits of Anian have been removed
- Far more detail in the interior of North and South America
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.
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