Land, Maps, and Natural Resources
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BMC 72--Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Monde; Dessignee en deux plan-Hemispheres par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire de la Majeste, 1651
- First map of the world, published by the single most important French mapmaker of the 17th Century, whose modernistic approach to cartography would redefine commercial cartography and end Dutch domination of the commercial map trade. Sanson's double hemisphere map of the world is a noteworthy depiction of the island of California and the Great Lakes of North America.
1651
BMC 21--Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima geographicè exhibita, c. 1720
- Map of the northeastern colonies in North America. It is an amalgam of Dutch and English sources, and depicts such inaccuracies as the strait cutting across Cape Cod near Eastham, a larger Lake Champlain, and several mythical lakes in New York.
1720
BMC 14 -- L'Amerique Septentrionale [...]; 1742
- L'Amerique septentrionale...dressée sur les observations de mrs. de L'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres & sur les memoires les plus recens par G. de L'Isle. (Title in upper margin:) America Septentrionalis in suas praecipuas partes divisa, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis. (1742) Cornelius Mortier and Johannes Covens' re-engraved and nearly identical verison of D'Isle's map of North America. Shows routes of Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana and Olivier in the Pacific. Extends east to the Azores. Illustrated title cartouche.
1742
1910
Androscoggin River Survey. Livermore Falls to Errol, New Hampshire Sheet 5
- Androscoggin River Survey. Livermore Falls to Errol, New Hampshire, 1906. Approximately 37 x 30 inches. Sketch. Sheet number 5
1906
Androscoggin River Drainage Basin, Kennebago Lake
- Kennebago Lake. 1910. Approximately 19 x 22 inches. Positive image.
1910
Town Lines of Sumner, Woodstock, etc.
- Two maps of Sumner-Woodstock town line. Tracing is approximately 21 x 11 inches. A second map of the same is approximately 20 x 8 inches. Scale 1 inch = 100 rods.
1913
River Surveys, Androscoggin River, Maine (profile - Brunswick to Umbagog Lake)
- Androscoggin River profile, Brunswick to Umbagog Lake, 1905. Tracing. Approximately 20 x 25 inches.
1906