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Carte / de la / Virginie, de la / Baye Chesapeack, / et Pays Voisins. / Pour sevir a l'Histoire Generale / de voyages. / Tiree des meilleures Cartes Angloises.
Paris; Derived from 1754 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, this map appeared in Histoire Generale des Voyages by l'Abbe Provost in Paris until 1775. It shows the area from Philadelphia south to Cape Henry and west to the mountains and includes names of…
Carte / de la / Virginie, de la / Baye Chesapeack, / et Pays Voisins. / Pour sevir a l'Histoire Generale / de voyages. / Tiree des meilleures Cartes Angloises.
Paris; Derived from 1754 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, this map appeared in Histoire Generale des Voyages by l'Abbe Provost in Paris until 1775. It shows the area from Philadelphia south to Cape Henry and west to the mountains and includes names of…
Carte / De La Caroline / Meridionale et Septentrionale / Et De La Virginie
Paris; Paris is noted as the prime meridian on this map which appeared as No. 158 in Atlas universel..., published between 1797 and 1801 by Edme Mentelle and Pierre Gregorie Chanlaire. It shows the area from New Jersey to Georgia. Mountains in the…
Carte / de la Partie Sud / des Etas unis / De / L'Amerique Septentrionale
Paris, ca. 1780; Showing the area from Virginia's Rappahannock River through Georgia, this map indicates larger towns by symbols colored in red. Bonne was a mathematician and cartographer and successor to Jacques Nicolas Bellin as hydrographer at the…
Carte / De La Virginie Et / Du Maryland / Dressee sur la grande carte Angloise de Mrs Josue / Fry et Pierre Jefferson / Par le Sr Robert de Vaugondy Geographe
Paris; Based on the 1755 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, this smaller map was first published in 1757 and until 1799 in the Atlas Universel. This is state 5 in Pedley's bibliography [1793b?]. The cartouche of the first state of the Virginia map was…
Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, Le Nouvelle Iarsey, Orient et Occidentale. A Amsterdam chez P. Mortier, Avac Privilege
Amsterdam; Based on the Thornton and Fisher chart of 1689 and Augustine Herrman's 1673 map of Maryland and Virginia, this map appeared in the volume 3 of Le Neptune Francois. It is oriented with north to the right. Focused on the Chesapeake Bay, the…
d'Engelze Volkplanting / in / Virginia / door / Iohhan Smith / Bezogt en verder uytgeset
Leiden, ca. 1708-1728; A prolific publisher, editor, and bookseller, Peter vander Aa included the arrival of John Smith to America in his map of Virginia. He published a similar map in his Atlas Nouveau Et Curieux (1714), but with a French title and…
Il Maryland, Il Jersey Meridionale, La Delaware, E La Parte Orientale Della Virginia, E Carolina Settenrionale
Venice; From Guilliaume Thomas Francois Rayna's Storia dell'America Settentrionale, 1778, which contains 12 colored maps. Relief shown pictorially. Large "D" in Atlantic Ocean. Based on the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia. Shows area from Filadephia…
Indians; After John White's drawings: [Indians]
Frankfort; Note: image depicts front; see "Related Item" field for verso of image. These depictions of ten native peoples from Virginia and Roanoke are based on the drawings of John White, who documented the English expedition under the direction of…
Indians; After John White's drawings: [Indians] [verso]
Frankfort; Note: image depicts verso; see "Related Item" field for front of image. These depictions of ten native peoples from Virginia and Roanoke are based on the drawings of John White, who documented the English expedition under the direction of…
Map / of / Virginia / and / Maryland / Constructed from the Latest Authorities
Philadelphia, 1831; Published in Mitchell's A new American Atlas, which was designed to illustrate the geography of the United States, this is map 7, engraved by J.H. Young. An inset shows a plan of Washington, D.C. and Georgetown, and statistical…
Map / of the Maritime Parts of / Virginia / Exhibiting the Seat of War and of / Ld Dunmore's depredations / in that Colony
Philadelphia; Coolie Verner has proposed that this map is most likely "the first separate map of Virginia to be drawn, printed, and published in America." Most earlier maps had been engraved and published in Europe where the best craftsman plied…
Nova / Virginiae / Tabula
Amsterdam/London; Oriented with the north to the right, this derivative of John Smith's 1612 map of Virginia appeared in the Montanus edition of De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld as well as John Ogilby's America. The Montanus work contained Latin…
Nova / Virginiae / Tabula / Petrus Karius / Caelavit
Amsterdam; Note: see "Related Item" field for verso of map. This is the second derivative of Smith's map of Virginia. It was the only regional map in Mercator's Atlas Minor, beginning in 1628. The plate was not changed during its publication history…
Nova / Virginiae / Tabula / Petrus Karius / Caelavit [verso]
Amsterdam; Note: see "Related Item" field for verso of map. This is the second derivative of Smith's map of Virginia. It was the only regional map in Mercator's Atlas Minor, beginning in 1628. The plate was not changed during its publication history…