John Ogilby:  Nova Terrae Mariae Tabula

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Title: Nova Terrae Mariae Tabula

Map Maker: John Ogilby

Description:

Fine example of Ogilby's rare Lord Baltimore Map, the first printed map of Maryland.

Ogilby's map is the second appearance of this rare and highly important map, which was first issued in A Relation of Maryland; Together with a Map of the Countrey . . .

Papenfuse speculated that the map may have been prepared by Jerome Hawley and John Lewger, but the maker remains unknown. The map is the first map to focus on Maryland and is of great significance in border disputes with Pennsylvania, where the map was used as evidence by the Penn family against the Calvert family, the proprietors of Maryland, because the map showed the 40th parallel too far south. The dispute was not settled until effort by Ferdinando John Paris to bring the families together in the early 1730s resulted in several rounds of litigation before the courts in England, which was ultimately resolved in the 1750s and resulted in the surveys by Mason and Dixon.

The map is drawn largely from Smith's and Thorowgood's explorations. The Ogilby edition corrects the 40th Parrallel.

An essential map for Maryland collectors.

Condition Description: Wide clean margins

References: Burden 240.

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Maps of the Mid Atlantic