The Continents
De Wit, Tartary and China
Tartary and China, sold by the Dam in Amsterdam.
- Map
- Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis Regni Chinae
- Mapmaker
- Frederik de Wit
- Date
- c. 1680
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Frederik de Wit printed this map of Tartary and the greater part of the kingdom of China in Amsterdam around 1680. The imprint on the plate gives his address: on the Kalverstraat by the Dam, at the sign of the White Chart. Relief is drawn as small hills across the steppe and down to the Chinese coast. This copy was bound into a composite atlas titled Collection of old maps, the way a buyer assembled the world sheet by sheet from the shops of Amsterdam. It is the far east as a Dutch merchant could take it home and unfold it.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
