Virginiae item et Floridae Americae provinciarum nova descriptio

by Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius

$3,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

One of the great early maps of the American South, from before the Jamestown colony. The Mercator-Hondius map of Virginia and Florida, first published in 1606 by Jodocus Hondius, was the only regional American map in his edition of the Mercator Atlas. It is a remarkably good rendition of the coastline from St. Augustine to the Chesapeake Bay and points interior. Derived from John White's map of Virginia what became North Carolina , Le Moyne-De Bry's map of Florida what

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