Virginiae Item et
Floridae
America Provinciarum, nova Descriptio
by Johannes Cloppenburg
Mercator-Hondius Atlas
French Edition (1630)
[Northeast quadrant]
Shown above is the northeastern quadrant of
the Johannes Cloppenburg map of the southeast of North America. This map
was published in the French edition of Mercator's Atlas of 1630. Here the
original has been cropped and enlarged to show the Algonquin tribes and
villages of coastal North Carolina. Cloppenburg's slightly reduced-size
version is a fatihful reduction of Jodocus Hondius's influential map of
1606. Hondius's original map measured 340 x 490 mm and was published in
various language editions of Mercator's Atlas until 1638. The Cloppenburg
map measures 185 x 255 mm and was published in Mercator's atlas in 1630,
1632, 1636, and 1673 and in a few other atlases as late as 1738. Hondius's
original 1606 map was a composite of the de Bry map (based on John White)
of Virginia and the de Bry map of Florida (based on le Moyne). Reference:
The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511—1670,
by Philip D. Burden. Rickmansworth, England: Raleigh Publications Ltd.,
1996.
Source: George Howard, North
Carolina Map Gallery. Information provided by Jay Lester, The
William P. Cumming Map Sociery.
Copyright 2001
Carolina Algonkian Project