Ogilby, John: [Moxon, James]: [Montanus, Arnoldus]:

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AMERICA: BEING THE LATEST, AND MOST ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW WORLD CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL OF THE INHABITANTS, AND THE REMARKABLE VOYAGES THITHER…COLLECTED FROM MOST AUTHENTICK AUTHORS, ... The Botfield copy of the first English translation (or, as Sabin puts it, "impudent plagiarism") of Arnoldus Montanus' justly celebrated compilation on the New World. This is the rare issue containing James Moxon's map of the newly established colony of Carolina—the first large-format map of that portion of America. Montanus's narrative, first published in Dutch the same year as Ogilby's translation, contains a wealth of interesting maps and illustrations of the entire Western Hemisphere, accompanied by in-depth and occasionally lurid descriptions of nearly the entire New World. This is the first edition, second issue of the work, with the Arx Carolina and Virginia pars Australis plates replaced by the Lord Proprietors map and an additional map of Barbados, but without the updated list of plates.The Moxon map of Carolina, printed in 1672 and added to some copies of Ogilby's America as here, was preceded only by the much smaller and relatively simple maps by Robert Horne (1666), John Lederer (1672), and Richard Blome (1672), and would come to be known as The First Lords Proprietors Map, with a second Lords Proprietors Map appearing in 1682. The map covers the region of North and South Carolina from the James River in present-day Virginia to St. Augustine in present-day Florida, and i

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