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Copper engraving colored with watercolour, 1629. Taken from "Atlantiis Appendix". Measures 48.1 x 37.5 49 x 38 plus margins. The paper is decorated with artistic scrolls.
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Rare map bearing Blaeu's signature but it is the original map engraved for the first time by Jodocus Hondius II in 1618 with the name changed. Iodocus Hondius Jr. (1594 or 1595–1629) engraved the original plate (first state) of this derivative of Smith's map and published it as a single sheet, not as part of an atlas. Jodocus died in 1629 and the panel was sold by his wife along with his other plates to Willem Blaeu (1571–1638). Blaeu erased Hondius' signature from the copper and replaced it with his own and published it, together with the other plates, in his first atlas “Atlantis Appendix. This map represents the first widely disseminated version of Smith's work and, consequently, an important reference for other maps of the time, so much so that it became a model of the region until the publication of Augustine Hermanns' work in 1673.The work is one of the most detailed representations of the Chesapeake region, prized by map collectors of the area. Bibliography: Burden 193. Latin edition from Blaeu's atlas.