 A NEW MAP OF THE TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE 28" x 20" - 1011907 - $36.00 Map by Michael Burghers, ca. 1700 In the late seventeenth century, the term "terraqueous," deriving from the Latin word for water and land, was used to describe world maps and globes. Rather than provide information on towns and recent explorations, this map utilizes text to describe the climate zones and hemispheres of the continents and oceans. |
 OCCIDENTALIS AMERICAE PARTIS 28" x 20" - 1011915 - $36.00 Map by Theodore De Bry, 1594 Queen Elizabeth I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter enabling him to settle an English colony in America in 1584. The colonist established their headquarters on Roanoke Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, naming the region Virginia. John White was sent to draw and record the geography, natives, and natural history of the area. His map was the first printed English record of Raleigh's attempts to plant a colony in the New World and the first to include the name Chesepiooc Sinus. |
 AMERICAE SIVE NOVI ORBIS, NOVA DESCRIPTIO 28" x 20" - 991083 - $36.00 Map by Abraham Ortelius, 1587 Published in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered the be the first modern atlas, the map was revised in 1587 to reflect discoveries. The small finger of water directly below Apalchen is probably the first illustration of the Chesapeake Bay on a printed map. |
 A NEW MAPP OF THE WORLD 28" x 20" - 991075 - $36.00 Map by Robert Greene, 1676 Greene's map illustrates the delineation of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, allowing all of the islands comprising the Dutch West Indies to be seen together, rather then spilt into two groups. It includes inset maps of North and South Pole and is decorated with designs representing the continents of Europe, Asia, America, and Africa with people, animals and vegetation appropriate to the period. |
 NOVA TOTIUS AMERICAE TABULA 28" x 20" - 1011899 - $36.00 Map by Peter Schenk, cartographer ca. 1700 The depiction of California as an island is a misconception seen on many seventeenth-century maps. The most notable feature is its elaborate ornamentation of Native Americans, slaves, flora and fauna, and views or North American cites. |
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