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Last Name Wit

Given Name Frederik

alt. Names F. d. W. ; Frederic / Frederick / Fredericus de Wit / de Wit I ;

Marriage

Children cartographer, map maker, and publisher Frederik de Wit II (1630-1706)

Year born 1610 / 1616

Year died 1698

Place of death

Father's occupation

Relatives map maker and publisher Frederik de Wit III

Education

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for c. 2 or 3 dozen maps, among them otius Regnorum Hispania et Portugallia descriptio (Amsterdam c. 1680) ; map "Circulus Suevicus in quo sunt Ducatus Wirtenbergensis" (2nd edtion c. 1700) ; map "East-Oriented Nautical Chart of the Coastlines of Southeast Asia" (Amsterdam 1675) ;

Patronage

Collaborators

Techniques cartographical drawing and engraving

Sample(s) http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-29540 ;

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_de_Wit ;

Published sources George S. Carhart: Frederick de Wit and the first concise reference atlas (Leiden & Boston 2016) ; Grees 2002: 31 ; Walter 1944: plate 40 ;

other He was the founder of the publishing house de Wit, Amsterdam, specialised in maps and atlases.

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