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De Wit, Frederick
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita
Amsterdam, 1675. Original colour. 465 x 540mm. Minor
reinforcements to verdigris cracks on verso
An exquisite seventeenth century map of the world in double-
hemisphere, with two further spheres showing the northern and
southern hemispheres and cherubs in the cusps. The four corners are
taken up with vignettes of the seasons, each with references to the
Elements and the Zodiac. The first state of the map was issued c.1670,
but the cherubs in the cusps and the engraved border mark this as the
second state. Another plate replaced it in 1680. SHIRLEY: World 451 -
‘’one of the most attractive of its time... one of the finest that is relatively
easily obtainable by the map collector’.
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