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MAP #: 128B5

CARTOGRAPHER : BRY, THEODORE DE [PUBLISHER]

DATE: 1628

SHORT TITLE : VIRGINIA

REMAINING TITLE & ID : (TOP CENTER, NO CARTOUCHE)."ERFORSHET UND BESCHRIBEN DURCH CAPITAIN IOHAN SCHMIDT" (BOTTOM CENTER, BELOW THE SCALE). SCALE IN MILES AND HALF MILES (BOTTOM CENTER). INSET PICTURE ENTITLED "POWHATAN" (TOP LEFT CORNER). PICTURE OF STANDING SUSQUEHANNA INDIAN (TOP RIGHT). ROYAL COAT OF ARMS (LEFT OF STANDING INDIAN). LARGE COMPASS ROSE (BOTTOM LEFT CORNER). LONGITUDE (POSSIBLY EAST FROM FERRO, RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS). LATITUDE (TOP AND BOTTOM BORDERS, WITH "40" IN TOP BORDER REVERSED AS IN STATE 6 OF THE ORIGINAL SMITH MAP).

DATE OF PUBLICATION : S1628
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : FRANKFORT
PUBLISHER : THEODORE DE BRY
LANGUAGE(S) : GE
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 28.5 X 35.9 CM. (BETWEEN NEAT LINES)
SIZE - OTHER DATA : 32.3 X 40.8 CM. OM
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 1,300,000
SCALE - OTHER DATA : 15 MILES = 6.8 CM.
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : -
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : G1399-41
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : N022-HG2
REGION CATEGORY : GENERAL MAP OF MD/CHESAPEAKE AS ONE MAIN FOCUS (1)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) : JOHN SMITH DERIVATIVE MAP (11)
# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : W IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP
RELIEF SHOWN ? : YES
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : NONE
CARTOUCHE : NONE (1)
BORDER : GEOGRAPHICALLY FUNCTIONAL (8)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : UNSPECIFIED BUT POSSIBLY FERRO (22)
SEE ALSO MAP #s : 112S5, 118H5
BEST INFO SOURCE : VERNER'S STUDIES ARE THE BEST FOUND.
DESCRIPTION : ACCORDING TO VERNER, THIS MAP IS DERIVATIVE 3 FROM STATE 6 OF THE 1612 JOHN SMITH MAP (SEE MAP # 112S5). THE ENGRAVING IS CLEANER AND MORE SIMPLIFIED. THE POWHATAN VIEW IS IN THE TOP LEFT AND THE SUSQUEHANNA INDIAN IS ON THE RIGHT. THIS IS A MUCH RARER DERIVATIVE THAN MOST OF THE OTHERS, EXCEPT DERIVATIVE 1, STATE 1 (SEE MAP # 118H5). THE MAP FIRST APPEARED ON P. 17 IN DE BRY'S DREYZEHENDER THEIL AMERICAE...., FRANCKFURT, GEDRUCKT BEY CASPER ROTEL, 1628. THE MAP LATER APPEARED IN 1655 IN GALLFREIDT'S NEWE WELT UND AMERICANISCHE HISTORIEN..., FRANCKFORT, MERIONISCHEN, ERBEN.

DATA IS FROM COOLIE VERNER, MCS # 45, P. 31-32 AND FROM HIS [UNPUBLISHED] NOTES ON THE MAPS OF VIRGINIA.

EDITION & STATE INFO : ONLY ONE EDITION OF THIS MAP IS KNOWN TO EXIST. IT APPEARED IN DE BRY'S GERMAN AMERICA, PART XIII, 1628. THE MAP LATER APPEARED IN 1634 IN DE BRY'S DECIMA TERTIA PARS HISTORIA AMERICANAE, FRANCFORTI, MERIONI. IN 1655, THE MAP APPEARED IN GALLFREIDT'S NEWE WELT UND AMERICANISCHE HISTORIEN..., FRANCKFORT, MERIONISCHEN ERBEN, 1655.

DATA IS FROM COOLIE VERNER, MCS # 45.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE COPY IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS AN ELABORATE BUT UNIDENTIFIABLE WATERMARK. SINCE THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN THE PLATE DURING ITS USE, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL ITS SOURCE.

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : VERNER, COOLIE, SMITH'S VIRGINIA AND ITS DERIVATIVES, MCS # 45, MAP COLLECTOR'S CIRCLE, LONDON, 1968, PP. 31-32; VERNER, COOLIE, [UNPUBLISHED] NOTES ON THE MAPS OF VIRGINIA; PHILLIPS, P.L., A LIST OF MAPS OF AMERICA IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, 1901, P. 978; CHURCH #200; SABIN, JOSEPH, A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA, J. SABIN & SONS, NEW YORK, 1870, III, P. 58.

July 19, 1988


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