The present example is the first state of Visscher's map, pre-dating the removal of the ships in the Ocean (2nd state, 1670) and pre-dating the addition of Visscher's privilege in the lower right corner (3rd state, 1677). The map includes a dedication cartouche to Nicolas Witsen, the Mayor of Amsterdam and driving force behind many voyages of commerce and discovery at the time.
The majority of the cartographic details derive from Joan Blaeu's wall map of the world, published in 1648. A detailed cartouche shows a farmer holding a cycle and a bountiful of h. Oben rechts Titelkartusche darunter Windrose und Mastab. Map of Lower Saxony by Hondius which includes Friesland and depicts the coastline along the German Sea between the mouth of the Rhine and Elbe rivers and the regions down to Cologne. California appears in the Briggs model, unlike later copies of the map by DeWit and others, who used the Sanson Model. - Zeigt den Westflischen Kreis mit dem Gebiet Ostfriesische Inseln, Elbmndung, Maaslauf, Siegburg / Dillenburg. The map includes California as an Island, one massive open ended Great Lake, conjectural Northwest Passage, Straits on Anian, and rich illustration in the interior of North And South America, along with nearly a dozen ships at sea and two rich cartouches. Visscher's map became the proto-type map for Dutch maps of America for the next 50 years.
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