Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Map of Virginia from the year 1590, 19 x 14, this depiction being the accepted authority on the configuration of the coastline in the late sixteenth century, serving as the prototype map of the region for nearly a century. In very good condition, with a central horizontal and vertical fold, some light creasing, uniform toning with heavier areas along the edges, rough edges and a strip of reparative tape on the reverse supporting the central vertical fold.
This was the first separate map of Virginia, bearing unrivaled detail and accuracy, for any part of the United States during its primitive years. It records the earliest English colonization in the New World, depicting Virginia before the demise of its first colony. This map was based on John White’s 1585 drawing, which was originally created for Thomas Harriot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, Vol. 1. It was engraved by Theodor de Bry and chronicles the region from Cape Lookout to the Chesapeake area, which is entitled "Chesepiooc Sinus," the first printed version of the name. White was a member of the company Sir Walter Raleigh appointed to establish an English colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. The original drawing for this map was produced during that expedition, and de Bry then engraved the finished work for publication in 1590. The immense desirability of this colonial map speaks for itself, as it embodies the topography of the nation during its true formative years.
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