Nova Virginiae Tabula
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Nova Virginiae Tabula
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This map of the Chesapeake Bay region includes a cartouche portraying two Indians with a llama, a unicorn, and goats—animals some Europeans thought were native to Virginia. Engraved in Amsterdam, the map was prepared for inclusion in the Dutch edition of Arnoldus Montanus’s Die Unbekante Neue Welt (1671-1673), the first encyclopedia of the Americas. Rich with geographic detail, the map includes the location of Indian villages as well as the English settlement at Jamestown, seen on a curving section of the Powhatan (now the James River). This map was a variation on one attributed to the English settler Captain John Smith, first published in 1612.
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Jacob Meurs, engraver: Creator (cre)
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English
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Nova Virginiae Tabula
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