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© All images on these web pages are either protected by copyright law or are the property of the William P. Cumming Map Society. Permission to use or republish MUST be obtained from the Cumming Map Society and/or the legal copyright holder. 17th Century Map Favorites Click on any map for a higher resolution image.
Virginiae Item et Floridae This map by Jodocus Hondius first appeared in the 1606 Mercator's atlas, published by Hondius. As noted by Cumming, Hondius relied primarily on de Bry's engravings of White's and LeMoyne's maps of Virginia and Florida, respectively. As a result, the coastlines of South Carolina and Georgia are greatly reduced. But aside from all the cartographic history, I love the turkey!
Virginia et Florida by Hondius 1607 (1608) This is the atlas minor version. No turkey, deer, canoes, or humans.
Virginiae Item et Floridae by Mercator-Hondius 1630 Smaller than the original of 1606, and larger than the atlas minor version of 1607, this engraving was published by Cloppenburg in 1630 and 1636 French editions and a 1632 Latin edition of Atlas sive Cosmographicae. The plate was used again by Jansson's son-in-law, van Waesberge, in 1673 with the moiré removed from the ocean.
Nova Virginiae Tabula by Blaeu, 1635 Blaeu purchased the plate used for this map from Jodocus Hondius.
Blaeu's or Jansson's??? These cartographers copied each other's work on several occasions. It's a whole lot easier to tell if you click on the thumbnail to see the big picture. Answer at bottom of page.
The Blaeu map was re-engraved on a smaller scale with elaborate cartouches for the work by Montanus in 1671 (published by Jacob Meurs in Amsterdam) and shortly thereafter the same plate was used in Ogilby's English translation of the Dutch edition. A subsequent German edition also used this plate
Carolina Described 1666 by Robert Horne The image above is from a 1944 reprint [© University of Virginia] of the original map which was published in A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina on the Coasts of Floreda... Together with a most accurate Map of the whole Province, a pamphlet printed for Robert Horne in 1666. "It is now very rare and the map itself still rarer, as it is usually not found in the extant copies" (Cumming 60). The map shows Charles Town, "... a colony from Charlestowne, Massachusetts, est. in 1662 under the leadership of William Hilton, on Town Creek... Abandoned in 1663. In 1664 a colony from Barbados under the leadership of Sir John Yeamans occupied the site, but they abandonedd it in 1665." (from The North Carolina Gazetteer by William S. Powell © 1968 UNC Press). The map shows the "Hilton Riv." (now Cape Fear R.) and the "Charles Riv." (now N.E. Cape Fear R.) as well as many place names that appear on a printed map for the first time.
A New Discription of Carolina By Order of the Lords Proprietors Published by John Ogilby in 1672 and engraved by James Moxon, the interior parts of Carolina on this beautiful map were based on John Lederer's map included in the published report detailing his exploration of Virginia and Carolina in 1669-70.
Speed's "A New Description of Carolina," 1676 click here for a beautiful high resolution image of another example A wonderful map, but certainly not original in the cartography (see above)...and certainly not Speed's, although it is always credited to him. John Speed died almost 50 years before the publication of this map. It was one of the new maps incorporated into a 1676 reissue of Speed's 'Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World'. The map is (in)famous for its depiction of the large savanna in the Piedmont, the mythical "Afhley Lake," and the not-so-mythical desert in eastern NC (with apologies to all our Sandhills friends!)
Nouvelle Carte de la CAROLINE par R. Morden, 1688 This is a cute little map, measuring about 4 inches, and is an uncommon French edition (published in Amsterdam) of Robert Morden's "A New Map of Carolina..." The original English version was published in 1687 in Blome's "The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America...." Click on the thumbnail above to see it larger than life.
* * * * * * * * Blaeu vs. Jansson: You are correct if your answer was Jansson for the uncolored map and Blaeu for the handcolored map. A careful comparison reveals numerous differences in the two maps, but the easiest to spot are: 1.) in the right border the blocks are shaded by the latitudinal numbers on Jansson's map and are unshaded on Blaeu's, and 2.) longitude of 300 corrected over 200 in the bottom right corner on Jansson's map and original uncorrected error of 200 on the Blaeu map.
Detail of Jansson's map Details of Blaeu's map
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