(VIRGINIA) [Blaeu Willem; engraver] Novæ Virginiæ Tabula

Sale 2253 - Lot 330

Price Realized: $ 1,440

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(VIRGINIA.) [Blaeu, Willem; engraver.] Novæ Virginiæ Tabula. Hand-colored map, 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches; some separations at folds, tape repairs on verso, marginal staining. [Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1642]

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

"The first and most important derivative of John Smith's map of Virginia originally published in 1612. Through . . . its subsequent extensive republication for forty-two years, word of the English in Virginia became known throughout Europe." It appears here as a double-paged plate from Willem Blaeu's "Toonneel des Aerdrycx oft Nieuwe Atlas," with two pages of Dutch text on Virginia on verso, the footer reading "West-Indien." The copperplate had been engraved by Hondius in 1618, and was sold by his widow in 1629 to Willem Blaeu, who replaced Hondius's name on the plate with his own. Burden 193, state 2.