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Jan Jansson:  Virginia





Title: Virginia

Map Maker: Jan Jansson

Place / Date: Amsterdam / 1648

Coloring: Hand Colored

Size: 8 x 6 inches

Condition: VG

Price: SOLD

Inventory ID: 29511


Description:

Scarce 1648 Jansson map of the Chesapeake region, based upon John Smith's map of the region frist published in 1612.

Jansson's map replaced the Peter Van der Keere engraved map of the same region issued in the 1630 Cloppenburg edition of Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae.   The map appeared in the 1648 and 1651 editions of the atlas only and is therefore quite rare on the market.


Condition Description: Color a bit faded


References: Burden 226.


Related Categories:
Maps of the Mid Atlantic
Maps of Southeast America

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