'Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, Alias Barmudas Dictarum, Ad Ostia Mexicani Aestuary Jacentium In Latitudine .':. BERMUDA-INSELN (Bermudas) / Atlantischer Ozean: Alte Landkarten

Kupferstich v. Arnoldus Montanus aus Olfert Dapper: Die Unbekante Neue Welt, oder Beschreibung des Welt-teils Amerika, und des Sud-Landes b. Jacob van Meurs (Meursius) in Amsterdam, 1673, 29,5 x 35,5 Palmer, The Printed Maps of Bermuda (in The Map Collectors' Circle (No. 19), 12, plate VI. - The map was included in Montanus "Die Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America" and is based on Blaeu's chart of 1635. - It shows the division into the original Tribes, or shares and shows the various landowners with their names in a table below the map. - Bermuda was colonized in 1612. - The map uses Blaeu's previous projection to show Bermuda's correct proportion and position in the North Atlantic by superimposing this map over a smaller scale map of the Atlantic with the coastlines of Britain, North America (Virginia) and Hispaniola, with a tiny island of Bermuda appearing just beneath the title cartouche. - The map with a decorative cartouche including Neptune riding a pair of sea monsters, surrounded by putti. - The scale of miles cartouche shows a vignette of natives and Englishmen surveying the land, and the coats-of-arms for England and Bermuda are displayed at top left.