Re-prioritizing Blome’s Description…
Priority of the 3 first edition issues of Blome’s “A Description of the Island of Jamaica…” can be determined by the state of the map of Carolina.
Tag: Re-stating
Re-stating Blome’s A Generall Mapp of Carolina
Published cartographic reference works have described a single state of Richard Blome’s 1672 map of Carolina. The PDF linked below describes three states of the map.
States of the 1770 Churton-Collet map of North Carolina
The two separate states of John Collet’s 1770 map, A compleat map of North-Carolina from an actual survey / by Capt’n Collet, are described.
Re-stating John Henry’s 1770 map of Virginia
There are only about thirteen known surviving copies of John Henry’s 1770 map of Virginia. One of these, in the Biblioteca nacional de España, was printed from an earlier state of the copper plates than all other known extant copies. Read more about it in the attached PDF.
Re-stating James Cook’s 1773 map of South Carolina
Previous authors have recorded two states of James Cook’s 1773 map of the Province of South Carolina. A review of extant copies reveals three separate states.