One of de Wit's earliest dated works, and one of the first dated maps showing Tasman's discoveries 1642-1644. An exquisite world map first appearing in Hendrick Doncker's De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Waereld and the Sea atlas of the Watter world, both 1660. Both Koeman and Schilder give the author's birth and death as 1630-1706, while Bagrow states 1616-1698, and Tooley 1610-1698.