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…
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…
Oxford; Appearing in Edward Wells' A New Set of Maps, published in Oxford in 1700, this map was included in many editions until 1738. Little information is presented south of New York, but there are five insets: Carolina, New Scotland, I. of Jamaica,…
Amsterdam; This finely drawn chart of the Chesapeake Bay appeared as chart 19 in De Nieuwe Groote Lightende Zee-Farkel, Part 4, produced by Johannis van Keuler (1654-1715). First issued in 1684 and reprinted continuously until 1783, this volume…
London; Engraved on two plates and oriented with north to the right, this was the first published chart of the Chesapeake Bay with enough specific information to use for navigation. First appearing in The English Pilot: The Fourth Book (1689), the…
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…
From François Soulés,, Histoire de troubles de l'Amerique anglaise, 4 vols., (Paris, Buisson, 1783), vol. 3, at end. On light blue paper, the plan is oriented with north to the right. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes roads and houses. British…
Richmond, Virginia; The first American reprint of John Smith's two-volume work from 1626, The True Travels, Adventures and Observations ... in Europe, Africke, and America and The Generall Histories of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Iles, was…
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…
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…
Amsterdam; Note: image depicts front; see "Related Item" field for verso of image. A reduced verson of Hondius' Virginiae Item et Floridae (Spalding 20) and based on John White and Jacque Le Moyne, this small map appeared in Atlas Minor Gerardi…