Greenland & North America – Antique Sea Chart by Frederick de Wit, 1745

Sea Charts · 18th century

Greenland & North America – Antique Sea Chart by Frederick de Wit, 1745

€ 3 500

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1745
Technique: Engraved
Sheet size: 54.5 × 66 cm (21.5 × 26.0 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: PCT-59809

Condition

Beautiful original/contemporary hand coloring. Original folding line. Minor wear and toning. Small hole outside image. Please study images carefully.

About this sheet

Antique map titled 'Septemtrionaliora Americae a Groenlandia (..)'. Sea chart of the northern waters of North America, including the coast of Labrador and part of New Foundland, the west coast of Greenland, Davis Strait, via a non-existent passage to Baffin Bay and via Hudson Strait to Hudson Bay. The inset gives a more detailed chart of the fishing grounds at Disko Bay on the Greenland coast. This chart was originally engraved by Frederick de Wit for his 1675 Atlas; it was revised for the 1745 edition of Otten's Sea Atlas ['Atlas van de Zeevaart'].