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- Collection: Henry and Kaye Spalding Map Collection
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Virginie / Grande Region de l' / Amerique / Septentrionale
From the collection of Henry and Kaye Spalding.
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…
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…
U.S. Coastal Survey / A.D. Bache, Superintendent / Sketch C / Showing the Progress of the Survey in Section Hi / From 1843 to 1853/1853
Washington, U.S. Coast Survey, 1853; One in a series of charts of the Chesapeake Bay area made during the survey of the Bay, begun in 1843, This serves as a key to topographic and hydrographic sheets and shows the triangulation of of the Chesapeake…
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 / Virginie / et du Mariland
Paris, 1795; Published as a plate in 27 in Atlas Moderne Portatif. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Carte / de la / Virginie / et du Mariland
Map of Chesapeake Bay region, featuring parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina coastlines. Text is in French. Paris, 1795. Published as plate 27 in Atlas Moderne Portatif. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry &…
A NEW and / Accurate Map / of / VIRGINIA, / and Part of / MARYLAND / and PENNSYLVANIA.
J. Bew. Pater Noster Row. Jno Lodge sculp.
Nova Virginiae Tabula / Ex Officina Guiljelmi Blaew [verso]
Amsterdam; Note: image depicts back of map. See "Related Item" field for front of map. The original plate for this derivative of the Smith map was issued in 1618 by Jodocus Hondius, Jr., and purchased by Willem Blaeu at Hondius's death in 1629. He…
Nova Virginiae Tabula / Ex Officina Guiljelmi Blaew
Amsterdam; Note: see "Related Item" field for verso of map. The original plate for this derivative of the Smith map was issued in 1618 by Jodocus Hondius, Jr., and purchased by Willem Blaeu at Hondius's death in 1629. He replaced Hondius' name with…
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…
A New Map / of / Virginia / Maryland / And the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania / & New Jersey / Most humbly Inscribed to the Right / Hon'ble the Earl of Orkney & ct / Knight of ye most Noble and / Anciet [sic] Order of ye Thistle / 1719
London; This is the last major map based on Augustine Herrman's 1673 map of Virginia and Maryland, but unlike earlier maps, it is oriented with north at the top. The map was first published by Christopher Browne in 1685. This 3rd state includes the…
Americae / pars, Nunc Virginia / dicta, primum ab Angli / inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walteri
Frankfort, 1590; Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) used the watercolor map drawn by John White in 1585 as the basis for his engraved map of Virginia. Although primarily a map of what became the North Carolina coast, the map is the earliest published…
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…