Image Title

:  Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentiumq[ue] regionum, nova descriptio.

Creator

: Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680  -- Publisher

Additional Name(s)

: Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683  -- Cartographer

Published Date

: [1671?]

Item Physical Description

: 1 map : hand col. ; 28 x 35 cm.

Notes

: Appears in Arnoldus Montanus's Nieuwe en onbekende weereld. Note 2.) Covers the Atlantic coast from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay in Virginia to northern Florida. Note 3.) Earlier versions described in Phillip D. Burden's Mapping of North America, 1996. No. 253, 254. Note 4.) Includes col. ill., coats of arms and decorative cartouche. Note 5.) John H. Levine Bequest. Note 6.) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Note 7.) Relief shown pictorially. Note 8.) Units on bar scale: Milliaria Germanica communia. Note 9.) Watermark. Note 10.) Prime meridian: Ferro.

Standard Reference

: Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps, 67; Phillips. Maps of America, p. 979

Source

: John H. Levine Collection

Location

: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

Catalog Call Number

: Map Div. 97-7382 [Levine]

Digital ID

: 434971

Record ID

: 253603

Digital Item Published

: 2-26-2005; updated 3-25-2011