The Continents
Walton's Map of America, 1658
America in one English sheet, with its people round it.
- Map
- A new, plaine, and exact map of America
- Mapmaker
- Robert Walton
- Date
- 1658
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Robert Walton published this new, plain and exact map of America in 1658, in English. The border does the selling: figures, portraits and views of cities frame the two continents, and an inset shows the Arctic circle. The relief is drawn as small hills. Plain and exact were promises to a reader who wanted the whole New World on one sheet and in their own language. Look closely at the border first, then at the map, which is how its first owners would have read it: the people and the cities, and then the land they were meant to stand for.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
