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Nova Virginiae tabvla

Title: Nova Virginiae tabvla / D. Grijp, sculpt.
Author: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.
Publication: [Amsterdam] : Ex Officina Guiljelmi Blaeuw, [1644?]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Cartographic	Use in library	Map Div. 97-6293	Schwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117
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Description

1 map : hand col.; 36 x 46 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 86.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative Title

Nova Virginiae tabula

Subjects

Virginia > Maps > Early works to 1800
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) > Maps > Early works to 1800
Maryland > Maps > Early works to 1800

Note

Relief shown pictorially.
Shows Chesapeake Bay region.
State 2. Based on John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay. "Copper plates for a number of maps made originally by Jodocus Hondius Jr. were purchased by [W.J.] Blaeu in 1629 and the imprints altered to reflect the new ownership" --Verner, Smith's Virginia and its derivatives.
Oriented with north towards the right.
Large standing figure of Indian along right border at the center; royal coat of arms to the left of it.
Cartouches: title at top center; scale and publisher statement at bottom center; "Notarum explicatio" above Indian figure.
Appears in Willem Blaeu's Atlantis appendix. Possibly from his Le Théâtre dv monde.
On verso, catchword: naux; sig. I, [p.] 9.
Inset ill.: "Status Regis Powhatan" in upper left corner.

Indexed In (note)

Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici
Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America

Language (note)

In Latin. Text in French on verso.

Call Number

Map Div. 97-7389

OCLC

9865009

Author

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.

Title

Nova Virginiae tabvla / D. Grijp, sculpt.

Imprint

[Amsterdam] : Ex Officina Guiljelmi Blaeuw, [1644?]

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:1,120,000].

Indexed In:

Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, I, p. 121

Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America, p. 162

Language

In Latin. Text in French on verso.

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Added Author

Gryp, Dirck.

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Hondius, Jodocus, 1594 or 1595-1629.

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638. Théâtre dv monde.

John H. Levine Bequest.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-7389 [Levine]

Map Div. 97-6293 [LHS 86]

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