Virginie / Grande Region de l' / Amerique / Septentrionale
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d'Engelze Volkplanting / in / Virginia / door / Iohhan Smith / Bezogt en verder uytgeset
Leiden, ca. 1708-1728; A prolific publisher, editor, and bookseller, Peter vander Aa included the arrival of John Smith to America in his map of Virginia. He published a similar map in his Atlas Nouveau Et Curieux (1714), but with a French title and without the decorative border. The engraved background scene hints at hostilities between the Virginia Indians and the English. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
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 their trade. Aitken's map, however, was described by Verner as a crude engraving, having little significance. Aitken was born in Scotland and emigrated to Philadelphia in 1769 where he became a printer in 1774 and began publishing The Pennsylvania Magazine from January 1775 through 1776. Drawn by Pierre Eugene du Simitere, who came to the colonies from Switzerland in 1765, the map was published in The Pennsylvania Magazine I (1776), opposite page 184. The map is based on the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia and includes the area from St. Mary's, Maryland to the area around Suffolk. Towns and residences are shown as well as some roads, and the forts in York and Gloucester. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
U.S. Coastal Survey / A.D. Bache, Superintendent / Sketch C / Showing the Progress of the Survey in Section Hi / From 1843 to 1853/1853
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867
Washington, U.S. Coast Survey, 1853; One in a series of charts of the Chesapeake Bay area made during the survey of the Bay, begun in 1843, This serves as a key to topographic and hydrographic sheets and shows the triangulation of of the Chesapeake Bay and parts of James, York, and Rappahannock Rivers. Covers areas from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to Cape Henry. The topography was shown along the shoreline from one-half mile to three miles inland. The hydrography measured the depths in the bay and its tributaries. Alexander Dallas Bache, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and a graduate of West Point, become the director of the U.S. Coastal Survey in 1843. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Carte / de la / Virginie, de la / Baye Chesapeack, / et Pays Voisins. / Pour sevir a l'Histoire Generale / de voyages. / Tiree des meilleures Cartes Angloises.
Paris; Derived from 1754 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, this map appeared in Histoire Generale des Voyages by l'Abbe Provost in Paris until 1775. It shows the area from Philadelphia south to Cape Henry and west to the mountains and includes names of towns. Also noted is the great road that ran from Philadelphia, through the Valley of Virginia, and down into the Carolinas. Jacques Nicholas Bellin was "hydrographer to the king" and the first hydrographic engineer of the "Depot des cartes, et journaux du Ministere de la Marine." --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Carte / de la / Virginie / et du Mariland
Paris, 1795; Published as a plate in 27 in Atlas Moderne Portatif. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Map of Chesapeake Bay region, featuring parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina coastlines. Text is in French. Paris, 1795. Published as plate 27 in Atlas Moderne Portatif. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
A NEW and / Accurate Map / of / VIRGINIA, / and Part of / MARYLAND / and PENNSYLVANIA.
J. Bew. Pater Noster Row. Jno Lodge sculp.
Nova Virginiae Tabula / Ex Officina Guiljelmi Blaew [verso]
Amsterdam; Note: image depicts back of map. See "Related Item" field for front of map. The original plate for this derivative of the Smith map was issued in 1618 by Jodocus Hondius, Jr., and purchased by Willem Blaeu at Hondius's death in 1629. He replaced Hondius' name with his own. The map appeared in Atlantic Appendix (1630) and in most editions of this atlas. Studying under Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer, Williem Janszoon founded his company in 1596. To prevent confusion with the mapmaker Johannes Janssonius, he changed his last name to Blaeu. His business flourished in Amsterdam, printing numerous maps and charts, until a fire destroyed the property in 1672. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Nova Virginiae Tabula / Ex Officina Guiljelmi Blaew
Amsterdam; Note: see "Related Item" field for verso of map. The original plate for this derivative of the Smith map was issued in 1618 by Jodocus Hondius, Jr., and purchased by Willem Blaeu at Hondius's death in 1629. He replaced Hondius' name with his own. The map appeared in Atlantic Appendix (1630) and in most editions of this atlas. The map is larger than the original Smith map and is simpler in style, lacking ships and sea monsters. The trees are generic whereas the Smith map depicted different species of trees. The map includes an explanatory note above the Indian figure, and the royal arms lack their motto. Studying under Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer, Williem Janszoon founded his company in 1596. To prevent confusion with the mapmaker Johannes Janssonius, he changed his last name to Blaeu. His business flourished in Amsterdam, printing numerous maps and charts, until a fire destroyed the property in 1672. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Carte / de la Partie Sud / des Etas unis / De / L'Amerique Septentrionale
Paris, ca. 1780; Showing the area from Virginia's Rappahannock River through Georgia, this map indicates larger towns by symbols colored in red. Bonne was a mathematician and cartographer and successor to Jacques Nicolas Bellin as hydrographer at the Depot de la Marine in 1773. Although Bonne's name does not appear on this map, it is very close to, if not the same as, others with his name. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
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 dedication to the Earl of Orkney, Lord George Hamilton, (absentee) governor of Virginia from 1710 to 1737. As in most maps of this period, settlements appear along the rivers and east coast. Revised by I. Senex, it appeared as Map 30 in Senex's A New General Atlas, published in 1721. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Americae / pars, Nunc Virginia / dicta, primum ab Angli / inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walteri
Frankfort, 1590; Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) used the watercolor map drawn by John White in 1585 as the basis for his engraved map of Virginia. Although primarily a map of what became the North Carolina coast, the map is the earliest published representation of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay ("Chesepiooc Sinus") and the first to show the approach to Virginia from the sea (north is to the right). The map is beautifully and simply illustrated with ships, a sea monster, and indigenous figures. In April 1585 John White (fl. 1585-1598) accompanied Ralph Lane (ca. 1530-1603) to America to establish the first English settlement with one-hundred-eight colonists. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh under a patent from Queen Elizabeth, the expedition was led by Sir Richard Grenville, Raleigh's cousin, but when Grenville returned to England in August, Lane remained as governor of the new colony. In June 1586 one-hundred-three surviving colonists sailed back to England with Sir Francis Drake on his return after his raid on the West Indies. White returned to American in May 1587 as governor of a colony of one-hundred-fifty people but left for England in August for supplies. Unable to return to Virginia until 1590, White found that the colonists, including his daughter, Eleanor Dare, and granddaughter, Virginia, had vanished. Thomas Hariot (ca. 1560-1621) was with White and Lane in 1585. A mathematician and astronomer, Hariot assessed the area's economic possibilities and described the native peoples. In 1588 Thomas Hariot published his account of the 1585 voyage in A Briefe and True Report of the New Founde Land of Virginia. The 1590 edition included White's map and de Bry's engravings of White's drawings of the native inhabitants. The map was published again in 1600, 1608, 1620, and possibly 1634. However, once the page has been removed from the volume, the publishing date cannot be determined. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Indians; After John White's drawings: [Indians] [verso]
Frankfort; Note: image depicts verso; see "Related Item" field for front of image. These depictions of ten native peoples from Virginia and Roanoke are based on the drawings of John White, who documented the English expedition under the direction of Sir Walter Raleigh. They appear in Theodor de Bry's Grands Voyages, Part I, German edition, page 168, in the chapter describing Virginia. --From This New Founde Lande: The Henry & Kaye Spalding Map Collection at Hampden-Sydney College, 2008.
Indians; After John White's drawings: [Indians]