 Under this name De Wit and his firm became internationally known.The first cartographic images that De Wit engraved were a plan of Haarlem that has been dated to 1648, and sometime before 1649 De Wit engraved the city views – city maps for the cities of Rijsel and Doornik that appeared in the richly illustrated "Flandria Illustrata" by the Flemish historian, Antonius Sanderus.The first charts engraved by De Wit were published in 1654 under the "De Drie Crabben" address.