26 VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



1624. 



" Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm et Virginia," is the title of 

 the map in Jan de Laet's " Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe 

 van West Indien, fol. Tot Ley den, 1625." The part relating to 

 A'irginia is taken from Capt. John Smith's map. 



1628. 



In the thirteenth part of De Bry, German text, Frankfurt, 

 1628, is a German ed. of Capt. John Smith's Map of Virginia, 

 from the first impressions before the additions. 



1630. 



The following three titles are taken from Dufosse's Americana, 

 6*^ serie, No. 2: " Virginiae partis Australis et Floridas partis 

 orientalis, interjacentium que regionum nova descriptio (Amster- 

 dam, Guill. Blaeu, 1630)." " Nova Virginiae tabula. Amstclo- 

 dami (1630) ex ofificina Guiljelmi Blaeu w." " Virginiae item et 

 Floridae, Americse provinciarum, nova descriptio. (Par Mer- 

 cator, 1630.)" 



The following notice of Blaeu is found in Muller's Catalogue, 

 Amsterdam, 1877: "William Jansz. Bleau commenced his 

 renowned cartographical publications in the early years of the 

 17th century; in 1606 he had already published a map of the 

 world, followed by several other separate maps, which he united 

 in 1631 into an atlas entitled: Appendix Theatri Ortelii et 

 Atlantis Mercatoris, containing 103 maps. The work, now of 

 the utmost rarity, forms the starting point for Bleau's set of 

 atlases. The firm of /. Jansonius and H. Hondius, who^ had 

 continued to publish the old maps of Mercator and Hondius, 

 tried in vain to beat the new competitor by editing a similar 

 appendix of 106 maps in 1633. Both Jansonius and Bleau con- 

 tinued in doing their utmost to outdo each other by enlarging, 

 correcting and refining their atlases, even by pirating each other's 

 publications, until that of Janssonius reached at last its tenth 

 volume (the Orbis Ajitiquus), to which he afterwards (in 1661) 

 added Cellar ins, Harmoni-a Macrocrosima; the atlas of Bleau 

 reached the highest pitch by the magnificent Latin edition of 

 1665, in eleven volumes, to which he added the Theatrum Urhiiim 



