America.- Merian (Matthaeus) Virginia. Erforshet und Beschriben durch Capitain Iohan Schmidt, early map based on the sixth state of John Smith's prototype map showing explorations and observations made by Smith and the Jamestown settlers, with small crosses marking the range of those explorations, decorated with large compass rose set within the Atlantic sea in the lower left with numerous rhumb lines, decorated with a vignette of the Powhatan's Council, and a Susquehannock Indian in the upper right quadrant, engraving, on laid paper without watermark, platemark 293 x 367 mm (11 1/2 x 14 1/2 in), sheet 327 x 414 mm (12 7/8 x 16 1/4 in), central vertical fold, printers' crease along the central fold to lower half, minor surface dirt and browning, mainly marginal, unframed, [circa 1647]
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