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Johann Baptist Homann.
Virginia, Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria...
Nuremberg, c.1714. 500 x 585mm. Original colour.
£1,500
In bright original colour, with a fine title cartouche depicting trade with the Indians and a fish drying house, part of the propaganda to encourage German emigration. On the map New Jersey is shown divided into two, as the colony was governed as West Jersey and East Jersey between 1674 and 1702; west of Virginia Florida stretches north to Lake Erie, containing a mythical 'Apalache Lacus'. HOMA0032