Nova Virginiae Tabula

by Henricus Hondius

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A classic, early cartographic representation of Virginia: Hondius's version of John Smith's important map. This is the fifth of the many derivatives of Captain John Smith's map of Virginia, the earliest true map of the first permanent English colony in America. This map stays close in content to the Hondius-Blaeu map of 1629, which was in turn based on the first state of the Smith map. The early Dutch versions of the map were the primary disseminators of information on

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