Lot 3311
  • 3311

Wit, Frederick de (1630-1706).

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Atlas. Amsterdam, c.1680
folio (540 x 320mm.) no text, illustration: allegorical engraved title (with index on verso) and 28 double-page maps in contemporary hand colour, binding: contemporay calf, title repaired, several maps with repairs at fold, binding worn

Literature

Koeman III, Wit 4

Catalogue Note

An early example of de Wit's Atlas. Frederick de Wit was one of the most prominent and successful map engravers and publishers in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.