BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638)

Nova Virginiae Tabula [caption title]

[Amsterdam: 1640. Engraved map, with original handcoloring, 15 3/4 x 20 inches visible area. Matted, in a passe-partout frame. Scattered marginal foxing. Very good.

Second state of Blaeu's celebrated and influential map of Virginia, from the 1640 edition of "Ex Theatrum Obis Terrarum."

"Dutch publishers, responding to the demand for Smith's map, contributed to the dissemination of information about Virginia. Jodocus Hondius's "Nova Virginiae Tabula," printed in Amsterdam in 1618, was the first derivative of the Smith map. Willem Janszoon Blaeu purchased Hondius's plate in 1629 and used it with little alteration for the next forty-two years" - Stephenson & McKee. "Because of their longevity and commercial success, the Hondius and Blaeu maps afforded far more people a picture of Virginia than ever saw Smith's original version" - Woolridge.

Burden, The Mapping of America 193. Richard Stephenson and Marianne McKee, Virginia in Maps (Richmond, 2000), p.11. William Woolridge, Mapping Virginia (Charlottesville, 2012), p.40.

Item #34895

Price: $2,750.00