A rare broadsheet map of the Great Fire of London

A broadsheet map of London in original colour, produced in the same year as the Great Fire and showing the extent of the damage caused. Extending from Bunhill to St. George's Southwark, and from St. James's to Redriff, with a description below of the Great Fire in Dutch and French and an inset view of London in Flames. At the time the English and Dutch were at war (the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1665-7), and De Wit calls the Fire 'divine vengeance', 'coming down directly from the sky'. Although the disaster did make Charles II keen to end the war, London was soon rebuilt and eclipsing its Dutch rivals.