Unusually engraved gores were printed in a pale sepia ink. It is possible that this was to make it easier for a colourist to amend the printed details on the globe in the light of rapidly changing information.

On the East Coast of the present-day United 

s, the map records a large inland body of water labelled ‘Lacus Sal/sus’, or Salt Lake. The lake is joined to the Atlantic by two rivers ‘R. Grande’ at roughly 40°N and an unnamed river at roughly 37°N. In Virginia, the name Rassawick is indicated just north of the southern river. Furthermore, Croaton is shown just offshore.

The source of this cartography has eluded map scholars for some time; those that commented on the mapping (and there have not been many) tended to tie it to previous renderings of the Sea of Verrazanno, the great inland sea that was popular on maps of the mid sixteenth century. However, the Sea of Verrazanno had largely been dismissed by serious mapmakers by the late sixteenth century, and here the region includes Native American toponyms that reflect actual observations of the region in question, not just century-old conjecture. 

I and his brother, Henricus Hondius II, continued publishing atlases under his name until 1620. In 1621 

I split with his brother, creating a rival publishing house. Henricus continued his father’s business with his brother-in-law, 

 (1588–1664), who had married twenty-four-year-old Elizabeth Hondius in 1612. After 1619, the works were published under the name of Henricus Hondius, Jodocus Hondius’s son, but by 1629, the Blaeu family were becoming serious rivals to the publishing partnership of Janssonius and Hondius.

Prepared by 

I, these globe gores are exceptionally rare, produced sometime shortly after the discovery of the Le Maire Strait in 1618. They are also one of the few contemporary pieces to relate Captain John Smith's first mapping of Virginia, with its characteristic giant inland Salt Lake. These gores correspond to an approximately fifteen-centimeter terrestrial globe, no completed examples of which are known to exist. There is only one other known example of the gores, located in a Parisian institution. 

These exceptionally rare globe gores were prepared by 

I, sometime shortly after the discovery of the Le Maire Strait in 1618. These gores correspond to an approximately fifteen-centimetre terrestrial globe, no completed examples of which are known to exist. Furthermore, there is only one other known example of the gores, located in a Parisian institution. 

The gores are also one of the few contemporary pieces to relate Captain John Smith's first mapping of Virginia, with its alleged giant inland Salt Lake. Smith discussed his survey in a letter to the explorer Henry Hudson who in turn showed this material to Hondius and allowed him to make copies of Smith's manuscript maps for his own works including this set of globe gores.

In mid-1608, John Smith was just about to undertake his comprehensive survey of Virginia and was hot on the trail of rumours of a great lake, which local Powhatan peoples told him lay not far inland. Smith had not seen it himself but felt confident enough in his triangulation of these reports that he could relay his findings to others in Europe. The fact that there was a large inland lake somewhere in North America was tantalizing because, according to the theories of the day, such a large body of water would probably have offshoot rivers that exited to the Pacific Ocean in the west. Smith knew of Henry Hudson's desire to find an alternate passage to the East Indies and hoped by sending him this information he would entice him to search for it in North America, in or near the Virginia Colony.

Smith's letter and maps suggested that the entrance to the great inland lake could be found through a river or rivers lying somewhere between 37° and 40° North latitude. Crucially, Hudson showed this material to Hondius and allowed him to make copies of Smith's manuscript maps for his own archive. This exchange between John Smith, Henry Hudson, and Jodocus Hondius the Elder, is what gave rise to the mapping we see on this globe.

Exceptionally rare globe gores prepared by 

I, produced sometime shortly after the discovery of the Le Maire Strait in 1618. These gores correspond to an approximately 15-centimeter terrestrial globe, no completed examples of which are known to exist. Furthermore, there is only one other known example of the gores, located in a Parisian institution.

Double-page engraved copperplate set of twelve globe gores 

Globe Gores by Hondius