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VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



" Manuscript map of the South Part of Virginia, the original 

 coloured drawing (i8f inches by 14), with artist's signature," 

 Nicholas Comberford, Fecit Anno 1657, mounted on oak boards 

 hinged to close as a folio book. (Note.) The words " now the 

 north part of Carolina" were added about 1670 underneath the 

 original title. This is consequently the first special map of 

 North Carolina, the separation of which was looked upon with 

 great disfavor by the planters of " Ould Virginia." The coast- 

 line extends from Cape Henry to Cape Fear, and the interior is 

 delineated to as far as from about Murfreesboro in the north to 

 about Elizabeth Town in the south. This is an article which 

 ought to be secured by a public library. It is rfemarkable that 

 it was prepared in 1657, six years before the patent was given by 

 Lord Clarendon and others for the establishment of a colony." 



1659. 



Novi Belgi, Novae Anglige, nee non partes Virginias Tabula. 

 Van Nich. John Visscher. Amsterdam, 1659. This map is 

 noticed further on in a reprint from Asher's " A list of the maps 

 and charts of New Netherland." 



1661. 



Arcano del Mare di Don Roberto Dudleo Duca di Nortum- 

 bria e Conte di Warwach, impressione seconda (etc.) 2 v. Fol. 

 Fiorensa, 1661. Ouaritch Catalogue, No. 362, June, 1885, states: 

 " The maps which depict Virginia, New Netherlands and New] 

 England are among the most important of these; they are fuller 

 and upon a larger scale than, which at the same time they are 

 totally distinct from, those of Laet, Jansson, Mercator, Visscher, 

 the Beschryving of 165 1, Van Loon and Donckers. The above 

 second edition was prepared from the author's corrected copy 

 of the first (1646), and as he died in 1639, his maps of those parts 

 of America must be considered to take precedence of all those 

 mentioned by Asher, except the 1630 edition of Laet." 



1667. 



Bleau's Le Grand Atlas. Fol. Amsterdam, 1667, v. 12, gives 

 the same maps as are before mentioned in Jansson's Novus 



