A New Map of Virginia Mary:Land and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Published by J. Senex, London, 1721

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Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour. A highly-important and finely-drafted map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by a great English cartographer. This very elegant map is centered on Chesapeake Bay, and embraces all of the territory from Norfolk, Virginia up past Philadelphia in the north. Its antecedent was Augustine Herrman's 1673 manuscript map, which was first printed by Christopher Browne in 1685. Senex devised his own version of the map in 1719, and included it in his New General Atlas of 1721. The Browne map is extremely rare, making the present map the earliest reasonably obtainable example of this critical map. This map is one of the first of the subject to be oriented with the north on the top, and demonstrates that the geography of the region was by this time very well understood. The long-established provinces of Virginia and Maryland dominate the map, and in the north is the relatively new colony of Pennsylvania, founded by William Penn in 1681. Delaware is shown to be at this time still an appendage of Pennsylvania, known as the 'Lower Counties' of Penn's Grant. New Jersey is shown to be divided into East and West Jersey. An elegant Baroque title cartouche adorns the upper left corner. Morrison On the Map 24; Stevens & Tree "Comparative Cartography" in TooleyThe Mapping of America 86(c); Stevenson & McKee Virginia in Maps p.78.

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Title
A New Map of Virginia Mary:Land and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey
Author
SENEX, John (1678-1740)
Publisher
J. Senex, London
Publication year
1721
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Donald A. Heald Rare Books offers the finest examples of antiquarian books and prints in the areas of Botany, Ornithology, Natural History, Americana & Canadiana, Native Americans, Voyages & Travels, Maps & Atlases, Photography and more. Founded in England in 1972, we have formed and contributed to important private and institutional collections. Items of note which we have placed include a unique copy of Abbot’s "Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia" with plates on vellum, an extremely rare extra-illustrated large paper Spanish edition of Blaeu’s "Atlas Mayor," Curtis's "North American Indian," a copy of the Federalist Papers in boards, the first separate printing of the Bill of Rights, and a large paper issue of Redouté's "Les Roses" with the plates in two states. We are renowned for our extensive print inventory which is unsurpassed in quality. Our Sporting collection recently incorporated the complete print stock of Ackermann & Son of London, established in 1783. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, where Mr. Heald has served on the Board of Governors as Treasurer, Security Chairperson, and as Chairman of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. We are members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and the American Historical Print Collectors Society. Mr. Heald is a member of the Grolier Club, and the American Antiquarian Society.

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