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Map Favorites from our Members Click on the images if you want to see a much larger version with details. Commentary from the member who submits the map is welcomed and does not necessarily represent the views of the Cumming Map Society. © 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. 16th Century Maps (scroll down) 17th Century Maps (click here) 18th Century Maps through 1776 (click here) 18th Century Maps after 1776 (click here) 19th Century Maps (click here) All of the maps at the above links contain the Southeast U.S., either in whole (sometimes as part of a larger map) or a portion thereof. For members' favorite maps not pertaining to or containing the "home turf," click here.
16th Century Map Favorites
The World according to Munster c1550
Americas by Munster 1540 (1552) This map is famous for the depiction of a narrow isthmus between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in present-day North Carolina. Verrazano, sailing up the coast in 1524, mistook the Pamlico Sound for the Pacific Ocean. Verrazano's inaccurate report eventually found its way onto Sebastian Munster's famous map of the western hemisphere.
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio by Ortelius, 1587 (1588) This is the 3rd state, evident by the removal of the big hump on the west coast of South America.
Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur)... by Ortelius 1589 (1598)
Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta... Engraved by Theodore de Bry in 1590, this map was based on a watercolor by John White. It is the first printed map specifically of North Carolina.
Arrival of the English in Virginia Engraved by Theodore de Bry, this particular copy is from a German edition of Harriot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, Volume 1 of De Bry's Grand Voyages, Published in Latin, French, English, and German in 1590. Viewed at high resolution by clicking on the above thumbnail, one can appreciate the beautiful detail characteristic of De Bry's engravings.
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