The Genesis of the United States

Alexander Brown

1890

This two-volume work contains a number of rare map reproductions, including a remarkable 1610 map of New England and New France that was discovered in the Spanish Archives at Simancas in 1885.

 

A selection of scanned text from this book explaining the details of the Simancas map is available here:

 

Selected Pages Scanned from Text

 

A scan of the Simancas map, also known to cartographers as the Velasco map, along with scans of two other maps from this volume, are available at the following links:

 

Simancas or Velasco Map of New England and New France (1610) 
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[full size]

Map of Virginia (1608)
[full size]

Tindall Map of James River (1608)
[full size]

A couple of lower-resolution colour scans of the Velasco map can be found on the Web at the following sites:

Colour scan of Velasco Map
[medium size]

Additional discussion of the Velasco (Simancas) map of 1610 from A Book of Old Maps Delineating American History, Fite and Freeman, Harvard University Press, 1926, pp 108-111.

Selected Pages Scanned from Text