Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Virginia [and Maryland]
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Accession Number:
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3363
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File Name:
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3363-3
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Call number:
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Z M533 1635 / 1-SIZE
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Map title:
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Virginia [and Maryland]
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Place of Publication:
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[London]
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Publisher:
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[T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright]
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Publication date:
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1636
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Map size height:
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17.2 cm.
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Map size width:
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23.5 cm.
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Item description:
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engraved map; following p. 906
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Geographical description:
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Map of Virginia and Maryland. Cartographic elements include compass rose, degrees of latitude and longitude, locations of native American and European settlements, scale with dividers, and some topographical details. Decorative elements include views of native Americans sitting around a fire and idol, view of a charnel house, and a view of a settlement surrounded by wooden palisade, canoes, ships, sea monster, royal English coat of arms, animals such as pigs or peccaries, jaguar [?], fortification, natives and Europeans hunting with guns or muskets, and bows.
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Source author:
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
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Source title:
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[Atlas minor. English] Historia mundi; or, Mercator's Atlas. Containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world
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Source place:
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London : Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke, 1635
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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According to the errata, this map was included in this book because a map was yet not ready to illustrate the author's section on Virginia. It was derived from John Smith's map of Virginia of 1612. The engraver uses illustrations from Theodor de Bry's America. Part I. which are taken from John White's drawings.Image placed horizontally on page.
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References:
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Burden, P. D. Mapping of North America, 244
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Geographic Area:
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North America
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Normalized date:
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1636
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Creator:
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Ralph Hall
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