Our Collection presents Perfect Recreations™ of five important and beautiful maps by five extraordinary explorers.

In 1524 the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés produced this first map of an American city, what is now Mexico City -- and a map of the Gulf of Mexico that included the first use of the name "Florida".

Jacques LeMoyne de Morgue's Floridae Americae Provinciae was the definitive map of the area for nearly a century after its 1591 publication. He drew this classic map in 1564 while serving as cartographer, artist and visual documentarian for Charles IX's failed attempt to establish a French colony in Florida.

Americae pars, Nunc Virgina dicta is, in a way, the English counterpart to the LeMoyne Florida map. Drawn in 1585 from personal exploration and observation by John White, this is the first map of the first English colonial attempt. White departed for London in 1587 to procure supplies; when he returned, the colonists had disappeared and the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" was never found.

Two decades later, Captain John Smith and others established the first permanent English colony in the New World at Jamestown. His 1612 Virginia -- drawn from his 1607 - 1609 explorations of the region -- was the most important map of Virginia until the end of the 17th century.

Carte Geographique de la Nouvelle Franse is Samuel de Champlain's monumental documentation of his own discoveries of 1603 - 1612. The map is beautifully engraved and elaborately decorated with sailing ships, detailed drawings of indigenous flora and fauna and early depictions of Native Americans.

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