Nicholas Visscher / Pieter Schenk:  Nova Tabula Geographica Complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem . . . Canada sive Nova Francia, Nova Scotia, Novia Anglia, Novum Belgium, Pensylvania, Virginia, Carolina . . .

	(Click Image To Enlarge)

Title: Nova Tabula Geographica Complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem . . . Canada sive Nova Francia, Nova Scotia, Novia Anglia, Novum Belgium, Pensylvania, Virginia, Carolina . . .

Map Maker: Nicholas Visscher /  Pieter Schenk

Description:

Third state of Visscher's  2-sheet map Canada to the Carolinas and the Ohio Valley, first published in 1689 and now re-issued by Peter Schenk.

This is probably the most important and interesting state of the map. Not only has Cape Breton been re-engraved and had several place names added, but it is the only state to include a detailed plan of Louisbourg, with the Fort, fortifications, and a legend detailing the batteries of cannon, etc. .

Referring to the first edition of the map, The Maryland Historical Society Huntingfield Map Collection catalog description states:

This beautiful map . . . is probably the most detailed delineatio of the Coastline from the Carolinas to Labrador drawn in the 17th Century. . . . The Cartography of the Atlantic Seacoast is exceptional for the period, but the representation of the interior is almost entirely conjectural.  The Del-Mar-Va peninsula is shown in a distinctive shape, with the portion south of Delaware BAy too wide and curving to the east.  The map is important to a Maryland-Chesapeake collection primariy because it as later copied by Johann Baptiste Homann in the Maryland-Delmarva Peninsula area . . .

It was in 1745, that William Pepperell and his New Englanders, supported by a fleet of merchant seamen under Sir Peter Warren, attacked and captured the Fort. Three years later the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle gave it back to France, but it fell again in 1758 to General Jeffrey Amherst and Admiral Boscawen during the Seven Years' War, and was at that point destroyed.

References: McCorkle 689.8; Kershaw I:321, plate 207

Related Categories:
Maps of Canada
Maps of the Mid Atlantic
Maps of the Northeast
Maps of Northwest America