Details

Subject(s)

• Middle Atlantic States—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• New England—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• New York (N.Y.)—Bird's-eye views—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—New England—18th century [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Middle Atlantic States—18th century [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

Herrman, Augustine, 1621 or 1622-1686 [Browse]

Former owner

Fox, N. B. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Aerial views [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Bird's-eye views—New York (State)—New York—1684 [Browse]
• Maps—Middle Atlantic States—1684 [Browse]
• Maps—New England—1684 [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Scale: Milliaria Germanica communia.
• Includes latitude and longitude.
• Fourth state includes to the left of the view: "cum Privil. Ordin.: General: Belgii Faederati."
• First printed map to show the correct shape of Manhattan.
• Shows locations of New England and the Middle Atlantic states, known towns and American Indian settlements.
• Includes images of wildlife.
• Covers New England and Middle Atlantic region southward to Hampton Roads.
• A map in the Van der Donck-Jansson-Visscher series of maps of the middle colonies.
• Inset view: Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans [ca. 1650].
• Includes index for inset.
• Inset is of New Amsterdam, looking southeast, from Governors Island.
• Authorship of both map and view has been attributed to Augustine Herrman.
• Historic Maps copies 1 and 3 are uncolored.

Language note

Languages: Latin and Dutch.

Provenance

Historic Maps copies 1 and 2 are from the estate of N.B. Fox, Princeton Class of 1899.

References

• Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America 315
• Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America K8
• McCorkle, B. New England in early printed maps 655.1

Other title(s)

Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula

Inset title

Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans

OCLC

77564720

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