Magni Mogolis Imperium de Novo Correctum et Divisum Per

Frederik de Wit, Magni Mogolis Imperium de Novo Correctum et Divisum Per, Amsterdam, 1700
16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm)

An beautiful original hand coloured map of Northern India, showing Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and extending inland up the Ganges and Indus Rivers to Tartary and the Himalayas, including Katmandu, Kabul and other legendary cities along the great trading route. It extends up to South India, showing Orissa, Deccan etc. The map is adorned with elephants shown roaming the Ganges and camels east of Kabul, decorative cartouches and sailing ships. An extremely beautiful map of the rare The Covens & Mortier edition of this map.

"Frederik de Wit (born Frederik Hendriksz; c. 1629 - July 1706) was a Dutch cartographer and artist. The first cartographic images that De Wit engraved were a plan of Haarlem that has been dated to 1648, and sometime before 1649, De Wit engraved the city views - city maps for the cities of Rijsel and Doornik. His Atlas began to appear around 1662 and by 1671 included anywhere from 17 to 151 maps each. In the 1690s, he began to use a new title page Atlas Maior but continued to use his old title page. His atlas of the Low Countries first published in 1667, was named Nieuw Kaertboeck van de XVII Nederlandse Provincien and contained 14 to 25 maps. De Wit quickly expanded upon his first small folio atlas which contained mostly maps printed from plates that he had acquired, to an atlas with 27 maps engraved by or for him". (Source: Wikipedia)

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