Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia (Amsterdam, 1638). Jan Jansson (1588–1664),

Jansson HMC01_1218This influential map of America’s eastern coast by the Dutch cartographer Jan Jansson is one of the first to depict, in print, the English colonies in New England and Dutch colonies along the Hudson River. Gift of the estate of Noel Bleecker Fox, Class of 1899. Historic Maps Collection.

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