This magnificent map is based on the famous 1618 survey by John Norwood of the Bermuda Company (also known as the Somers Isles Company). The map shows the division into the original Tribes, a short-lived term for the major shareholders in the company, that became administrative parishes. Also shown are the various landowners, with their names in a table below the map. There are many tiny houses shown on the map, locating settlements, as well as minute cannons marking the defensible points. The beautiful title cartouche features Neptune astride the Royal Arms, holding a fine ship. Further adorned with scale cartouches, coats of arms, and a compass rose. The map uses a unique device to show Bermuda's correct proportion and position in the North Atlantic by superimposing this map over a smaller scale map of the Atlantic with the coastlines of Britain, North America, and Hispaniola, with a tiny island of Bermuda appearing just beneath the title cartouche. French text on verso, published between 1635-38.

See also lot 704 for Margaret Palmer's The Mapping of Bermuda - A Bibliography of Printed Maps & Charts 1548-1970 that describes this map.

References: Goss (Blaeu) p. 166; Palmer (MCC-19) #7; Van der Krogt (Vol. II) #9660:2.

Condition: A

A fine impression with full contemporary color, a couple of insignificant spots, and a hint of toning.