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Virginiae / Item et / Floridae / Americae Provinciarum, nova / Descriptio [verso]
From the collection of Henry and Kaye Spalding.
Virginiae / Item et / Floridae / Americae Provinciarum, nova / Descriptio
Amsterdam; Note: image depicts front; see "Related Item" field for verso of image. Based on White's map of Virginia and Le Moyne's map of Florida and derived from Hondius's 1606 map of the same name, this small map appeared in Gerardi Mercatoris…
Virginiae / Item et / Floridae / Americae Provinciarum, nova / Descriptio
From the collection of Henry and Kaye Spalding.
Virginia, / Maryland, / Pennsilvania, / East & West / New Jersey. / Sold by Jno Mount & Thos Page / Tower Hill.
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…
Virginia / Marylandia / et / Carolina / In America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultae / repraesentatae / a / Ioh. Bapt Homann S. C. M. Geog. / Norimbergae
Nuremburg; Created to encourage German emigration to America, Homann's map contains an elaborate cartouche stressing wealth and riches. A prosperous gentleman oversees a full tobacco warehouse, gold, and natural resources. German settlements are…
Virginia / et / Florida [verso]
London; Note: image depicts verso; see "Related Item" field for front of image. Similar to Spalding 26, this small map appears on a sheet of text from Samuel Purchas' His Pilgrimes in the 1625 edition, page 625. Again, it is a reduced version of…
Virginia / et / Florida [verso]
Amsterdam; Note: image depicts back; see "Related Item" field for front 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…
Virginia / et / Florida
London; Note: image depicts front; see "Related Item" field for verso of image. Similar to Spalding 26, this small map appears on a sheet of text from Samuel Purchas' His Pilgrimes in the 1625 edition, page 625. Again, it is a reduced version of…
Virginia / et / Florida
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…
Virginia (Virginia et Insulae Bermudes)
From the collection of Henry and Kaye Spalding.
Virginia
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…
Verso of Older Man in a Frock Coat [profile]
Verso of bust-length profile portrait of a balding man facing left. Condition: Poor, paper has an arched top, acid mat burn, horizontal tear from right side three-quarters across the image, chips from the side and top edges, evidence of water damage…
Venable Hall
17 x 11.5 cm
Black & white
Black & white
Venable Hall
11.5 x 16.5 cm
Black & White
Black & White
Venable Hall
11.5 x 16.5 cm
Black & white
Black & white