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Historic Map of the American South: Virginia Item et Floridae (1606) by Gerardus Mercator and Jocodus Hondius, Framed Print
Historic Map of the American South: Virginia Item et Floridae (1606) by Gerardus Mercator and Jocodus Hondius, Framed Print
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Public domain art from The Walters Art Museum, digitally enhanced in high resolution. Copper plate engraving.
One of the great early maps of the American South, from before the Jamestown colony.
The Mercator-Hondius map of Virginia and Florida, first published in 1606 by Jodocus Hondius, was the only regional American map in his edition of the Mercator Atlas. It is a remarkably good rendition of the coastline from St Augustine to the Chesapeake Bay and points to the interior.
Derived from John White's map of Virginia (what became North Carolina), Le Moyne-De Bry's map of Florida (what became South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida) and early travel accounts, Hondius cobbled together a map of great interest. On the coast one finds a roughly accurate northeasterly shoreline from the Spanish fort of St Augustine to the St John's River (here called Rio de May) where the second unsuccessful Huguenot colony struggled in 1564, upward to Port Royal, where the first unsuccessful Huguenot colony failed in 1562, upward to Cape Fear (here Cape St Romano) to the Outer Banks and finally to the clearly as yet unexplored Chesapeake Bay.
Of the interior, rumour contends here with pure fiction, but the source of many rivers is the 'Apalatcy' mountain range, which also promises gold and silver. The South Carolina-Georgia portion of the interior is much more heavily notated with native villages, probably impossible at this point to verify. The map is embellished with illustrations borrowed from Le Moyne and White, including native towns, a native king and queen and a canoe. The title cartouche is a handsome three part figure with the two village illustrations on either side of the title.
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