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Richard Norwood
In 1616
a survey of the island of Bermuda was initiated by Captain Daniel
Tucker, the appointed governor and one of it "adventurers." Richard
Norwood was commissioned to make the survey "assigning to every
adventurer his share or proportion." Norwood's map was engraved by
Abraham Goos of Amersterdam and dated 1626. It was first published in
John Speed's A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World,
London 1627. It later appeared in Willem Janszoon Blaeu's Atlantis
Appendix, Amsterdam, 1630, and Henricus Hondius, Atlas ou
Representation du Monde Universel, Amsterdam, 1633. The stamp is
adapted from the Hondius version.
Reiner Ottens
Joachim
Ottens (1663-1719) founded a map publishing firm in Amsterdam. His
sons Reiner and Joshua continued the business after their father's
death. They produced enormous collections of maps, some as large as 15
volumes, made up to order and were magnificently colored. They also
issued single-volume atlases with varying contents as well as pocket
atlases. The maps of islands in the Grenadines were published around
1765.
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