Content: State 2. Based on John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay. "Copper plates for a number of maps made originally by Jodocus Hondius Jr. were purchased by [W.J.] Blaeu in 1629 and the imprints altered to reflect the new ownership" --Verner, Smith's Virginia and its derivatives.
Content: Appears in Willem Blaeu's Atlantis appendix. Possibly from his Le Thhbtre dv monde.
Content: Cartouches: title at top center; scale and publisher statement at bottom center; "Notarum explicatio" above Indian figure.
Content: Inset ill.: "Status Regis Powhatan" in upper left corner.
Content: John H. Levine Bequest.
Content: Large standing figure of Indian along right border at the center; royal coat of arms to the left of it.
Content: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 86.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: On verso, catchword: naux; sig. I, [p.] 9.
Content: Oriented with north towards the right.
Content: Relief shown pictorially.
Content: Shows Chesapeake Bay region.
Citation/Reference: Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, I, p. 121
Citation/Reference: Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America, p. 162
Statement Of Responsibility: D. Grijp, sculpt.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 46 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 9865009
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14963762
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2b6e39b0-c6f0-012f-ffdb-3c075448cc4b

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1644

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Nova Virginiae tabvla" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1644. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b6e39b0-c6f0-012f-ffdb-3c075448cc4b

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1644). Nova Virginiae tabvla Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b6e39b0-c6f0-012f-ffdb-3c075448cc4b

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