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MAP #: 124S5

CARTOGRAPHER : SMITH, JOHN

DATE: 1624

SHORT TITLE : OULD VIRGINIA

REMAINING TITLE & ID : (ON THE FACE OF THE MAP IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER). [VERNER NOTES THAT THIS MAP IS GENERALLY KNOWN BY THIS TITLE, BUT THAT THE ACTUAL TITLE, WHICH FOLLOWS THIS NOTE, IS IN THE CARTOUCHE IN THE UPPER RIGHT.] "A DESCRIPTION OF PART OF THE ADVENTURES OF CAP: SMITH IN VIRGINIA." (RECTANGULAR BOX IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER). "GRAVEN AND EXTRACTED OUT OF Ye GENERALL HISTORY OF VIRGINIA, NEW ENGLAND, AND SMER ILES, BY ROBERT VAUGHAN" (BELOW THE NEAT LINE). A SCALE OF 10 LEAGUES (CENTER BOTTOM). TWO COATS OF ARMS (TO RIGHT AND LEFT OF SCALE). LONGITUDE (POSSIBLY EAST FROM FERRO, RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS). LATITUDE (TOP BORDER).

DATE OF PUBLICATION : S1624
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : LONDON
PUBLISHER : JOHN SMITH
LANGUAGE(S) : EN
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 12.7 X 15.5 CM.
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 1,450,000
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : G3880 1626 .S6
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : G1399-268(2)
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : S022-HN3Q*
REGION CATEGORY : GENERAL AREA MAP SIGNIFICANT TO A MD/CHESAPEAKE COLLECTION (3)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) :
# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : W IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP
RELIEF SHOWN ? : YES
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : SHOALS ARE SHOWN IN SHADING
CARTOUCHE : SIMPLE LINE FRAME (2)
BORDER : GEOGRAPHICALLY FUNCTIONAL (8)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : UNSPECIFIED BUT POSSIBLY FERRO (22)
SEE ALSO MAP #s : 090W5
BEST INFO SOURCE : CUMMING AND VERNER ARE THE BEST FOUND.
DESCRIPTION : THIS MAP WAS PUBLISHED IN FOUR STATES IN THE VARIOUS EDITIONS OF THE JOHN SMITH BOOK, DATED 1624, 1625, 1626, 1627, 1631, AND 1632, THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA, NEW=ENGLAND, AND THE SUMMER ILES, LONDON, BETWEEN PP. 20-21 OR 40-41. THE MAP IS ON THE SAME PAGE AS SCENES DEPICTING EVENTS IN SMITH'S TIME IN VIRGINIA.

THE MAP COVERS PRIMARILY THE NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA AREA, BUT, LIKE THE WHITE MAP OF 1590 (SEE MAP 090W5), IT GOES ONLY AS FAR NORTH AS THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. ALTHOUGH MANY OF WHITE'S 1590 NAMES ARE RETAINED, NUMEROUS CHANGES WERE MADE AND NAMES WERE GIVEN TO BOTH REAL AND IMAGINED TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. WHITE CALLED THE WHOLE AREA "VIRGINIA". THE MAP HAD VERY LITTLE INFLUENCE ON THE CARTOGRAPHICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION IT COVERS, SINCE HIS NAMES ON THE MAP WERE NOT USED BY LATER MAP MAKERS. WHEN SMITH'S MAP OF 1612 DESIGNATED A NEW VIRGINIA, THE ORIGINAL AREA DEPICTED BY WHITE BECAME KNOWN AS "OULD VIRGINIA", A NAME WHICH CONTINUED IN USE THROUGH 1646 ON THE DUDLEY CHART.

DATA IS PRIMARILY FROM CUMMING AND VERNER.

EDITION & STATE INFO : A SINGLE EDITION OF THIS MAP IS KNOWN IN FOUR STATES. DATES SHOWN ARE THE YEAR OF THE EDITION OF THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA... IN WHICH THE MAP WAS FOUND.

1ST STATE- (1624,26)- THIS IS THE MAP AS DESCRIBED. IT HAS 37 PLACE NAMES BUT NO FIGURES OF TREES. COPIES ARE IN CHAPIN LIBRARY, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, (1624); MASS. HIST. SOC. (26); FREE LIBRARY OF PHILA. (24, INSERT); PRINCETON (24,26); UNIV. OF VA.(24); WALTERS ART GALLERY(24).

2ND STATE- (1624,26)- TWENTY FIVE NEW PLACE NAMES HAVE BEEN ADDED STARTING AT THE TOP WITH "MOUNTAYNES FOREST". TWENTY SEVEN FIGURES OF TREES HAVE BEEN ADDED. THIS STATE DOES NOT HAVE THE NAME OF IAMES REEVE AS PRINTER. COPIES ARE IN HUNTINGTON (24); NY PUBLIC LIBRARY(26) BOTH ON ORDINARY PAPER; ON THICK PAPER FOR USE IN THE LARGE PAPER ISSUE OF 1624, COPIES ARE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, ETON COLLEGE LIBRARY, ETON, BUCKS; HUNTINGTON (3 COPIES), LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY, LONDON; NY PUBLIC LIBRARY; PRINCETON (2 COPIES); UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND.

3RD STATE- (1624,1625,1626,1632)- THE INSCRIPTION "PRINTED BY IAMES REEVE" IS ADDED TO THE RIGHT OF THE MAP IN THE POCOHANTAS-JOHN SMITH PICTURE. "DAVERS ILE" AND "P BARKLEY" HAVE BEEN ADDED, BUT "ADAMS SOUND" HAS NOT BEEN ADDED ABOVE "C HENRY". COPIES ARE IN LC (26); COLUMBIA UNIV. (26); JCB (32); CLEMENTS (24); PRINCETON (24); HUNTINGTON (25); JOHNS HOPKINS (GARRETT) (24); LIBRARY CO OF PHILA. (24); PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NY; PRESTON DAVIE, TUXEDO, N.Y. (26); NY PUBLIC LIBRARY (24,32); HENRY C. TAYLOR (25); UNIV. OF VA. (24); AND YALE (26).

4TH STATE- (1624,1626,1627,1631,1632)- "ADAMS SOUND" HAS BEEN ADDED ABOVE "C HENRY". COPIES ARE IN LC (24); BOSTON PUBLIC (27); JCB (27,31,32); CLEMENTS (32); DARTMOUTH (24); DUKE (24); FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY (24-LARGE PAPER EDITION, 26,31); PRINCETON (27-2 COPIES, 32); HARVARD (32); HUNTINGTON(26,27, 32); ILL. STATE HIST. SOC. (24); LAFAYETTE (24); LIBRARY CO. OF PHILA. (27); NEWBERRY (27,32); NY PUBLIC LIBRARY (27-2 COPIES, 32-3 COPIES); PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY (27-LARGE PAPER COPY); HENRY C. TAYLOR (32); UNIV. OF VA.(27); WILLIAM & MARY (24); WILLIAMS (CHAPIN) (32); AND HUNTINGFIELD CORP. (27).

DATA ON STATES IS FROM EAMES LISTING IN SABIN'S DICTIONARY. INFORMATION ON LOCATION OF COPIES IS FROM CUMMING.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A COPY OF STATE 4 IN A 1627 COPY OF THE JOHN SMITH GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA... IN BLACK AND WHITE. THE MAP IS ON THE SAME PAGE AS, AND IS SURROUNDED BY SCENES FROM JOHN SMITH'S TRAVELS IN THE AREA, DEPICTING PRIMARILY INDIAN SUBJECTS. IT IS LOCATED BETWEEN PAGES 20 AND 21.

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : CUMMING, WILLIAM P., THE SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS, UNIVERSITY OF NC PRESS, CHAPEL HILL, 1962, # 32 AND PLATE # 23 (STATE 3, WITHOUT IMPRINT);SABIN, JOSEPH, DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA, J. SABIN & SONS, NEW YORK, 1879, # 82824; VERNER, COOLIE, [UNPUBLISHED] NOTES ON THE MAPS OF VIRGINIA; BAER, ELIZABETH, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARYLAND, A BIBLIOGRAPHY, THE JOHN WORK GARRETT LIBRARY, BALTIMORE, 1949, # 7; CHURCH # 402; THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AMERICANA FORMED BY THE LATE THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER, PARKE- BERNET GALLERIES, INC., NEW YORK, 1967,VOL. II, PP. 818,821.

July 17, 1988


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