![]() General age-related toning, small hole in cartouche and a nearly invisible tear along the border of Ducatus Carinthiae. In 1710, the De Wit plates were sold to Mortier, Van der Aa, and Renard.Ĭondition: Good. ![]() On his death in 1706, The business was continued for a time by his widow Maria untill 1709. De Wit also acquired numerous copperplates from those auctioned by the Blaeu and Janssonius publishing houses sometime after 1674 and republished these works, often with his imprint added. Many of his maps were superbly coloured by master Dutch colourists of his day such as Dirck van Santen. He produced a prodigious amount of cartographic material including separate terrestrial maps and sea charts, sea and terrestrial atlases, wall maps, and town views. He worked in Amsterdam from the Kalverstraat (‘bij den Dam inde dry Crabben) to 1654 and then from ‘in de Witte paskaert from 1655 to 1706. de Wit''.ĭetailed map of Austria, centred on the course of the Danube from Passau to Vienna.Īrtists and Engravers: Frederick de Wit [1629-1706 was known as a map publisher, engraver and seller. Highly detailed map of the region bounded by the Gulf of Venice and the Golfo Carnero, Stiria and Cherso Island in the South, and extending to north of the Danube, showing Passaw, Vienna, Saltzburg, Venice, Trieste, Cilley, Clagnfurt, Crainburg, Carlstat, Warasdin, Gratz, Ludenberg, etc., in the. At first in 1795 the whole Dam was rebaptized into Revolution Square, then it got the name Napoleon Square, till in 1813 after Napoleon's fall Covens & Mortier were back again at the Vijgendam.Antique map of Austria titled ''Circuli Austriaci pars septentrionalis in quia archiducatus Austriae et Ducatus Stiriae accuratissime divisi ostenduntur per F. Fine example of Gerard Valk's map of Austria, the Gulf of Venice and part of Croatia and Istria. They didn't move out of their building, but they did change addresses. ![]() It was located on the Vijgendam (Fig Dam), the southern part of what is now Dam Square, the central hub of the city. This firm was the biggest Dutch one for publishing maps in the 18th century. The late eighteenth century saw a number of successful reissues by publisher Cornelis Covens (1764-1825), who ran the famous cartographical publishing house of Covens & Mortier (1721-1866) in Amsterdam. Leonard Valk died in relative poverty: his wife had to take in the washing of their aunt to make ends meet. Leonard naturally took over the business on his father's death in 1726, and following his own death in 1746 the firm was run by Maria Valk, cousin, and wife to Gerard. ![]() The cartography, as stated on the cartouche, is based closely on the celestial atlas Uranographia, published in 1687 by the celebrated Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687).Īround 1711, when he became a member of the bookseller's guild, Leonard Valk (1675-1746) came into partnership and his name started to appear alongside that of his father on the cartouches of the globes, although the earliest of these, both terrestrial and celestial, still bear the date 1700. The Valks produced several editions of 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 24-inch diameter terrestrial and celestial globes. In 1701, he applied for a charter for making globes and the "Planetolabium", designed by Lotharius Zumbach de Coesfelt (1661-1727), an astronomy lecturer at Leiden University. ![]() Initially, they published maps and atlases, but in 1700 the company moved the shop to the building previously occupied by map and globe-maker Jodocus Hondius. Initially an engraver and art dealer, and having worked for map-sellers Christopher Browne and David Loggan in London between 16, Valk established the firm in Amsterdam in 1687. Gerard Valk, or Gerrit Leendertsz Valck (1652-1726) together with his son Leonard, were the only significant publishers of globes in the Netherlands in the eighteenth century, enjoying an almost total monopoly in the first half of the 1700's. African Islands, including Madagascar (65). ![]()
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