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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 / 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…
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…
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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…
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…
Virginiae / Item et / Floridae / Americae Provinciarum, nova / Descriptio
From the collection of Henry and Kaye Spalding.
Virginiae / Item et / Floridae / Americae Provinciarum, nova / Descriptio [verso]
From the collection of Henry and Kaye Spalding.
Pas Kaart / van de / Zee Kusten van / Virginia / Tusschen / C Henry en T'Hooge Land van Renselaars Hoek / Door Vooght Geometra
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…
Virginiae / partis australis, / et Floridae partis / orientalis, interjacentiumaq(ue) regionum / Nova Descriptio
Amsterdam; Note: see "Related Item" field for verso of map; Published in Jansson's Atlas Novus, editions 1649 to 1649, this is State 2 of 1640, differentiated by the sea-cherub, lower left, with a tail. In the 1630s there was fierce competition…
Virginiae / partis australis, / et Floridae partis / orientalis, interjacentiumaq(ue) regionum / Nova Descriptio [verso]
Amsterdam; Note: see "Related Item" field for verso of map; Published in Jansson's Atlas Novus, editions 1649 to 1649, this is State 2 of 1640, differentiated by the sea-cherub, lower left, with a tail. In the 1630s there was fierce competition…
A New Map of the most Considerable / Plantations of the English in America / Dedicated to His Highness / William Duke of Glocester
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,…
America /Secondo le ultime / Osservazioni del Ac- / cademia Reale delle / scinze [sic]
Rome, ca. 1775; This small map of the Western Hemisphere is probably from the Italian edition of the atlas Geografia Universale, engraved by P. Buffier and published in Rome by G. Petroschi in 1775. Claude Buffier was a Jesuit theologian whose small…
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…
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…
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…