MAP #: 171O5
CARTOGRAPHER : OGILBY, JOHN
DATE: 1671
SHORT TITLE : NOUA TERRAE MARIAE TABULA
REMAINING TITLE & ID : (CARTOUCHE, UPPER CENTER). LORD BALTIMORE'S COAT OF ARMS (UPPER RIGHT CORNER). "THIS NORTHERNE PART OF VIRGINIA (THE LIMITTS WHEREOF EXTEND FARTHER SOUTHWARDS,) IS HEERE INSERTED FOR THE BETTER DESCRIPTION OF THE ENTRANCE INTO THE BAY OF CHESAPEACK." (UPPER LEFT CORNER). SCALE OF 20 SEA LEAGUES (LOWER LEFT TO LOWER CENTER). COMPASS ROSE (LOWER LEFT, ABOVE AND TO LEFT OF SCALE). LONGITUDE (POSSIBLY EAST FROM FERRO, RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS). LATITUDE (TOP AND BOTTOM BORDERS).
THE MAPPING OF THE MARYLAND TERRITORY IS NOT NEARLY AS GOOD AS THAT OF SMITH, ALTHOUGH THE COMPILER EVIDENTLY HAD SEEN THAT MAP. VERNER CONCLUDES THAT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE 1635 LORD BALTIMORE MAP AND THE JOHN SMITH MAP ARE SUCH AS TO SUGGEST THAT SOME ORIGINAL SURVEY WORK HAD BEEN DONE, BUT IF SO, ITS CIRCUMSTANCES ARE NOT KNOWN. ITS GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCE WAS APPARENTLY MINOR ON SUBSEQUENT MAPS, EXCEPT THAT THE HERRMAN MAP OF 1673 SHOWED SOME OF ITS FEATURES. HE BELIEVES THAT THE MAP IS FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT GEOGRAPHICALLY THAN IT IS USUALLY CREDITED WITH BEING. IT IS THE FIRST PRINTED MAP SPECIFICALLY OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY THAT SHOWS A MORE NATURAL SHAPE FOR THE DELMARVA PENINSULA AND A MORE ACCURATE RELATIONSHIP WITH DELAWARE BAY. THE PURPOSE OF THE ORIGINAL MAP WAS TO BE HELPFUL TO POTENTIAL IMMIGRANTS IN LOCATING SETTLEMENTS RATHER THAN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SMITH DELINEATION GEOGRAPHICALLY.
FOR A FULLER DESCRIPTION, SEE MAP # 135C5.
DATA IS FROM PHILLIPS VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY, MATHEWS, E.B., MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS OF MARYLAND, AND FROM PAPENFUSE AND COALE, ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS OF MARYLAND 1608-1908.
EDITION & STATE INFO : TWO EDITIONS OF THE MAP ARE KNOWN. THE FIRST WAS THE ORIGINAL THAT ACCOMPANIED THE PAMPHLET A RELATION OF MARYLAND... IN 1635. THE SECOND EDITION, IN 1671, WAS IN JOHN OGILBY'S AMERICA, TRANSLATED FROM ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' DE NIEUWE EN ONBEKENDE WEERELD, DONE THE SAME YEAR.
1ST ED.-(1635)- THE COUNTIES IN MARYLAND ARE NOT NAMED. FOR A COMPLETE INVENTORY OF THE COPIES OF THE RELATION OF MARYLAND AND THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF EACH COPY, SEE MAP # 135C5.
2ND ED.-(1671)- THE TEN COUNTIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY ARE NAMED IN THEIR APPROXIMATE LOCATIONS. THERE IS A CLEARER DELINEATION OF THE SMALL ISLANDS OF THE BAY. THE WORDS "MANY DEGREES" BEFORE "FARTHER SOUTHWARDS" IN THE LEGEND IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER ARE OMITTED. THE DOTTED LINE REPRESENTING THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF MARYLAND IS MOVED FURTHER NORTHWARD THAN IN THE FIRST EDITION AND TWO ROWS OF TREES ARE ADDED. COPIES ARE IN THE NEWBERRY, FLORIDA STATE, EVERGREEN HOUSE OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE JOHN SNYDER AND THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTIONS, AMONG MANY OTHERS. THIS IS THE MAP DESCRIBED HEREIN.
HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS MAP IN OUTLINE COLORING.
BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY ANNUAL REPORTS, VOL. 3; PHILLIPS, MAPS, P.227, 391; PHILLIPS, VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY, PP. 41-42; MATHEWS, E.B. THE MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS OF MARYLAND, PP. 360-361; PAPENFUSE AND COALE, ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS OF MARYLAND 1608-1908, FIG. 5, PP. 5-7; BAER, E., SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARYLAND: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, NO. 70, PP. 67-70; CUMMING, WM. P., THE SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS, NO. 67, PP. 149-150; SABIN, JOSEPH, A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA, NEW YORK: JOSEPH SABIN, 1868-1936, #50089; TIELE #263n; VERNER. COOLIE, UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON THE MAPS OF VIRGINIA.
April 16, 1988
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