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Caerte vande Cust Carolina

Tusscheb B de S Matheo en C. Henry op Niew Verbeetert door

ROGGEVEEN, Arent & ROBIJN, Jacobus
Amsterdam,
Jacobus Robyn met Privilegio Voor is Iaaren A'o
1687.
First state. Double-page engraved chart, with fine hand-colour in part and in outline.
430 by 535mm (17 by 21 inches).
2960

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Large-scale sea chart of the Carolina coast - published in Roggeveen's exceedingly rare sea pilot 'Het Brandende Veen'.

In 1687 Robijn replaced the earlier chart of the south-east with this one. It is interestingly derived from Johannes van Keulen's 'Pas Kaart Van de Kust van Carolina,' 1684, the publisher whom he had been working with in 1679. Robijn rotates the projection to a north-south one and in the process eliminates the south portion of Chesapeake Bay. Th...

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Burden 629 state 1.

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