"Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis, Interjacentiumq Regionum Nova Descriptio", Jansson/Valck & Schenk

This lovely map of the Southeast extends from the southern part of Chesapeake Bay to northern Florida. This is the first state of Jansson's map, which is virtually identical to Blaeu's map of 1638. Cartographically it improves on the Hondius map of 1606, on which it was derived, with Chesapeake Bay correctly indicated as a large bay and the Carolinas and Georgian coasts depicted more accurately. The map presents the English and French colonial interests in the region as depicted by their respective royal arms. At the southern end of the Appalachians is a note concerning gold and silver mines. Richly decorated with a large cartouche flanked by Native Americans. The Atlantic Ocean contains two compass roses, three sailing ships and two aquatic putti holding the German scale of miles. Petrus Schenk acquired the plate from Jansson's heirs and reissued the map with his own imprint and with the addition of lines of latitude and longitude. Blank verso.

References: Burden #254; Cumming (SE) #42; cf. Van der Krogt (Vol. I) #9400:1B.

Condition: B

A crisp impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet with a "P. Schenk" watermark. There is light soiling, a small hole caused by a paper flaw above the large lake at left, and remnants of hinge tape in the top corners of the sheet on recto, far from the image. A short centerfold separation in the top margin has been closed on verso with cello tape, and a separation that enters 5" into the image at bottom has been closed on verso with archival tape within the image and cello tape in the blank margin.