Published by Willem Blaeu 1630-34

This reproduction of an original color copperplate engraving of New England and the New Netherlands, crisscrossed with rhumb lines (any of the 32 points of a mariner's compass) is one of the earliest detailed maps to show that part of North America colonized by the Dutch. It is also the first printed map to show Indian canoes and North American fauna such as turkeys, beavers, polecats and otters.

First published by Willem Blaeu circa 1630-34, he was the patriarch of the Blaeu family empire of cartographers, instrument makers, booksellers and publishers. As was typical of their creations, this intaglio is embellished with an ornate title cartouche, and decorated with ships and compass roses.