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Very good. Few marginal mends, upper centerfold split just touching border. Old manuscript L'Amérique added to upper margin. Fine hand color. Size 17.25 x 21.5 Inches. This is Frederic De Wit's scarce, separately issued 1660 carte à figures map of America. This beautifully engraved map was one of a handful produced by De Wit to showcase his skill as he struck out on his own as a mapmaker, after having worked for many years under the Blaeu family. It represents a synthesis of traditional imagery with state-of-the-art geographical ideas. It was not intended for any particular atlas, although surviving examples occasionally appear bound into other works, including Doncker's Zee-Atlas . The Sources Cartographically the map owes much to Blaeu's 1617 Americae . This is notable in the rendering of the Spanish province of La Florida. As well, in South America, where Blaeu's geography is evident De Wit's network of rivers and lakes spanning Brazil and connecting to the Rio de la Plata is of particular note. However, De Wit is not exclusively following Blaeu's Americae . For example, the Lagoa dos Patos on coast north of the Rio de la Plata is drawn from either the 1630 de Laet map of the Americas or the Blaeu West Indische Paskaert . The Propaganda of Omission One notable excision is the lack of any mention of the English colony in New England: New Amsterdam, the New Netherlands, and Manhattan are all named, as are the Iroquois lands between the Dutch settlements and the French to the north, but all the placenames pertinent to New England are Dutch, whereas the English are confined here to Virginia. In this, De Wit's 1660 map appears to be drawing both from the West Indische Paskaert and Joan Blaeu's America Septentrionalis . Although the production of this map fell between the first and second Anglo-Dutch Wars, it would be understandable if Dutch animosity to the English helped inform the editorial process. An Evolution in Phantom Geography When wrestling with remote parts of the world, mapmakers of the 16th and 17th century were prone to error - either due to genuine confusion or lack of data, or in some cases falling prey to deliberate fraud. As geographer's data for a given area improves, error sprouts elsewhere. For example, here De Wit's map includes none of the previous century's Zeno geography, and also eschews the phantom island of Buss. As if to compensate, De Wit adds the phantom island of 'Brazil' in the Northern Atlantic at 60° longitude. California as an Island The model for North America's remotest coastlines can be ultimately traced to the 1635 Foxe map, but through the conduit of Blaeu's 1659 North America, or possibly his 1648 world map. The shape of De Wit's Buttons Bay is rounder than that which appears on either, but seems to be drawn from the Bay as it is depicted in the subordinate arctic projection on the 1648 world. De Wit has followed Blaeu in his selection of the Foxe/Sanson model of the insular California, rather than the Briggs model preferred by Jansson in 1636 and Visscher in 1658. De Wit's choice to omit any reference to English claims to California is in keeping with the similar east coast snub: there is neither a P. S. Francisco Draco here, nor a Nova Albion. Canadian Arctic De Wit's Great Lakes geography appears to be a piece with the mapping to the north and west of it, although engravers' errors create a unique river network in place of the open-ended lake of the 1648 Blaeu world. A similar error transforms the peninsula north of California - 'Agubela de Cato' - into a partial coastline and an inland river. Carte-à-figures Surround The maps of Blaeu and Speed are generally best known for their decorative borders in this style, but other Dutch mapmakers (Hondius, Jansson, and van der Keere) also produced such maps. The figures for De Wit's map are derived from the 1614 van der Keere Americae Nova Descriptio . The city views, too, mostly derive from the van der Keere, with the exception of Olinda.
Seller Inventory # America-wit-1660
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