De Wit, Frederick. Carte des Courones du Nord Qui Comprend les Royaumes de Danemark, Suede, & Norwege. Amsterdam, c. 1710. 9.03.20 English surveying and mapmaking methods

English surveying and mapmaking methods developed during the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530 when large amounts of formerly Church land came onto the onto the private market were employed and refined in North America

The Newton family of cartographers were among the leading English globe makers of the early 19th century

Plate CXCII Great Cinereous Shrike or Butcher Bird

while some of his earliest engravings are in the revised edition of Methode pour Apprendre Facilement la Geographie (1685)

De Wit, Frederick. Carte des Courones du Nord Qui Comprend les Royaumes de Danemark, Suede, & Norwege. Amsterdam, c. 1710. 9.03.20 English surveying and mapmaking methodsFrederick De Wit Carte des Courones du Nord Qui Comprend les Royaumes de Danemark, Suede, & Norwege Amsterdam, c. 1710 21" x 24 1 2"