Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula.

Engr., 43,7 x 56,2 cm, hand-coloured (very light offsetting at left side, very lightly toned).

Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.

Double hemisphere set in a spectacular decorative border, containing 2 celestial spheres at the top, astronomical diagrams and north & south polar projections at the bottom, completed with allegorical representations of the 4 elements. Based on Blaeu's wall map, de Wit (1630-1706) engraved this world map for Hendrik Doncker's "De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Wereld [...]". Verso blank.
Ref. Shirley 421 ("one of the most decorative standard-size maps of the time and it is much less commonly found than his other atlas world maps"). - Koeman Don2 (1).