Virginia, Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultae repraesentatae
$2,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
A highly decorative and historically important map of Virginia, the Carolinas and the mid-Atlantic. This very attractive map was devised as a propaganda tool, to showcase Virginia as a land of plenty to prospective German immigrants. Homann first printed this map in 1714, including it in his Atlas Novus. That year, Alexander Spotswood, the Lt. Governor of Virginia, founded Germanna, a colony for German immigrants on the banks of the Rapidan River, identified on the map as
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