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Description from Mapping Maryland: "This is a second edition of what popularly is called the "Lord Baltimore Map," which first appeared in Father Andrew White's "A Relation of Maryland," a 1635 publication devised to entice colonists to the province. John Ogilby, a one-time "dancing-master," produced this map for his illustrated atlas, "America".Description from "Maryland from the Willard Hackerman Map Collection", George Peabody Library Exhibit Oct. 9, 2018 - March 16, 2019: "This delicately hand-colored map is the second edition of what is popularly called the "Lord Baltimore Map". It made its first appearance in the 1635 pamphlet "A Relation of Maryland". In this later edition, the Calvert coat-of-arms has supplanted the royal English arms. Additionally, the boundary line of Maryland has moved ever so slightly further north."1 map, hand colored, 29 x 37 cm., Scale: ca. 1:1,450,00

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