De Wit’s monumental world map

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[Wall Map] Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.

DE WIT, Frederick and Giacomo Giovanni DE ROSSI
Rome,
Rossi,
1675
Large engraved wall map on 12 sheets, border of city views on six sheets, and text along lower margin on three sheets, joined, outline hand colour. As is almost invariably the case with large seventeenth century wall maps, a certain amount of conservation work has been undertaken. A full conservation report is available on request.
1480 by 2358mm (58.25 by 92.75 inches).
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In the Jubilee year of 1675 De Wit's large wall map of c1660 was redrawn on twelve sheets and published in Rome by Giovanni de Rossi under his latinised name Jacob de Rubeis. The engraver was Georgio Widman.

The size of the map approximates to that of De Wit's earlier twelve-sheet map and the geographical correspondence is very close. De Rossi has added the tentative coastline of Terra Jessi between North America and Japan and has brought back, in part, the coast...

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Shirley 471.

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