Lot 168
  • 168

White, John

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • 'Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta primum ab Anglis inventa.' [Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1590 or later]
  • paper, ink
Full-sheet engraved map of Virginia (12 x 16 3/8 in.; 305 x 416 mm), engraved by de Bry after White. Minor repair at central fold, lower left corner worn, lower right corner defective with a small portion of border and ocean supplied in facsimile. Handsomely framed with UVIII Plexiglass.

Literature

Burden 76

Condition

Full-sheet engraved map of Virginia (12 x 16 3/8 in.; 305 x 416 mm). Minor repair at central fold, lower left corner worn, lower right corner defective with a small portion of border and ocean supplied in facsimile. Handsomely framed with UVIII Plexiglass.
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Catalogue Note

"One of the most significant cartographical milestones in colonial North American history [and] the most accurate map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent" (Burden). This is also the first map with "Virginia' in its title and the first map to name the Chesapeake Bay; it was issued in the first part of de Bry's Great, or American, Voyages, Thomas Hariot's account of his expedition to Virginia. Third state, with the initial 'E' effaced and the correct 'C' added to 'Chesepiooc.'