COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
15622
File Name:
15622-000
Call number:
Case Cd673 /1 / 3-SIZE
Map title:
Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ...
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Aug. Herman [sic] and Thomas Within-brook; sold by John Seller, hydrographer to the King ...
Publication date:
1673
Map size height:
79.2 cm.
Map size width:
93.9 cm.
Item description:
engraving
Geographical description:
Map of Virginia and Maryland, including parts of New Jersey, Delaware, and North Carolina. North orientated to right. Cartographic elements include locations of rivers, marshes, and settlements, degrees of latitude, scale, soundings, sea banks, and compass rose. Decorative elements include portrait of Augustine Herrman, British royal coat of arms, coat of arms of Maryland, dwellings, ships, and canoe or boat. Decorative cartouche includes a Native American man and woman with bow and arrow.
Cartobibliographic notes:
Herrman's map is considered the first adequate map of Maryland and was the prototype of published maps of the Chesapeake Bay region, used extensively in the running of the Mason and Dixon line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Herrman, a surveyor and draughtsman by profession, completed the map in about ten years and was rewarded with an immense tract of many thousands of acres principally in Cecil County, Maryland. A copy of a version of this map was made in manuscript and was included in the Blathwayt atlas. See 8189-16 and 8189-17.
References:
Phillips, P.L. Rare map of Virginia and Maryland; Baer, E. Maryland, 22; John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1930, p. 10-15; http://www.mdhs.org…
Geographic Area:
North America
Normalized date:
1673
Creator:
William Faithorne
Creator:
Augustine Herrman
Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ...
