BLAEU, Willem and Jan. Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae, partis orientalis. [Amsterdam, 1662].
BLAEU, Willem and Jan. Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae, partis orientalis. [Amsterdam, 1662].

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BLAEU, Willem and Jan. Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae, partis orientalis. [Amsterdam, 1662].

Engraved map, partially hand-colored, 383 x 503 mm. Latin text on verso. (Some light staining and offsetting.) Matted and framed.

Second state: the cherub on the left with a tail. "Blaeu's map of the south-east, cartographically it forms a marked improvement on the Hondius map of 1606, from which this was largely derived" (Burden). The present example is extracted from the first Latin edition: Joannes Blaeu America, quae est Geographiae Blauianae pars quinta liberunus volumen undecimum. Burden Mapping of North America 253.

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