
White, John. Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis inuenta Dn Walten Raleigh... Frankfurt,1585
John White Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, prinum ab Anglis inuenta Dn Walten Raleigh Frankfurt, 1585 The First Printed Map of Virginia and the Carolinas -- And The Earliest Regional Map To Show The English Roanoke Colony Fine dark impression of the earliest printed version of John White's manuscript of Virginia, engraved by De Bry for his Anglorum in Virginiam aduentus. Theodore de Bry's map of Virginia, after John White, is one of the most significant cartographical milestones in colonial North American history. It was the most accurate map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent. It became the prototype of the area long after James Moxon's map in 1671. The region of Chesapeake Bay was, however, improved by the surveying of John Smith around 1607. This is the first map to focus on Virginia (now largely North Carolina), and records the first English attempts at colonization in the New World. Burden states: The map concerned depicts the area from Chesapeake