AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. DE BRY, Th - Lot 128

Lot 128
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AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. DE BRY, Th - Lot 128
AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. DE BRY, Th Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis.. Francfort, 1590. Collé sur papier fort. Légèrement bruni dans la marge supérieure. - Laid on strong paper, small marginal repair. Paper slightly age-toned as usual, some browning in the upper margin. In good condition. 304 x 418 mm. Deuxième état. La carte de John White, superbement gravée, est la première à représenter et à nommer la baie de Chesapeake. Ses tracés de côte serviront longtemps de source principale aux cartographes ultérieurs. - John White's map, elegantly designed and superbly engraved, revolutionized geographic knowledge of the region. Although White left the Chesapeake poorly explored, much of his coastal data became the principal source for subsequent mappings for many years. John White was governor of the ill-fated Roanoke colony in North Carolina that was the first English attempt to settle North America. The earliest collectible map of Virginia and North Carolina and also the earliest to show and name the Chesapeake Bay. Its numerous pictorial elements include English ships outside the Outer Banks and at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay, Indian canoes around the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, Indian figures, the royal arms of England, etc. Quinn describes the map as the "most careful detailed piece of cartography for any part of North America to be made in the sixteenth century."A state two. - Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 847-8; Burden, 76 -S.2.
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