Ducatus Pomeraniae Tabula Generalis : in qua sunt Ducatus Pomeraniae, Stettinensis, Cassubiae, Vandaliae et Bardensis, Principatus Rugiae ac Insulae, Comitatus Guskovensis et Dominia Louwenburgense, Wolgastense et Butoviense /
Wit, Frederick de,(1610-1698).
Wit, Frederick de(1610-1698)
Officina R. & I. Ottens.
Amst. : ex officina R. & I. Ottens,
between 1725-1750.
Relief shown pictorial.
Engraved title cartouche, with puttis on a cloud, holding laurel, palm and fruits.
Mentions "cum privilegio".
Main cities colored in red ; fortresses marked.
Borders highlighted in colours.
Map mainly in Latin ; cities in German.
2 scale indicators : Milliaria Germanica Communia 15 in Vno Gradu, 10 = [10,1 cm]; Milliaria Gallica sive Horae Itineris 20 in Vno Gradu, 13 = [10,1 cm] ; marginal grids ; Ferro prime meridian.
Three places in the Rugen islands are marked with a longer note.
Also in Atlas Maior cum generalis..., printed by Reiner and Joshua Ottens between 1725 and 1750. Printed on the copperplate maps of Pomerania by T. Danckerts, but the brothers blot out his name and returned to the name of the real author - Frederick de Wit.
Map described in Pomerania and Szczecin on old maps, plans and views: exhibition catalog, by M. Stelmach, fig. 28.
This map shows the area of the former Duchy of Pomerania divided into different crowns, part of Pomerelia, along the northern shore of Germany and Poland, from Berlin to Gdansk.