Baxter Rare Maps

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BMC 62B--L'Acadia, le Provincie di Sagadahook e Main, la Nuova Hampshire, la Rhode Island, e parte di Massachusset e Connceticut, 1778
Map of Acadia, the provinces of Sagadahoc and Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and part of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Depicts the Northeastern coast, extending from the Hamptons on Long Island and the Connecticut River and showing all of New England, the Bay of Fundy and Acadia. The map, while issued separately as part of Zatta's Atlante Novissimo, is one of 12 sections comprising the Italian edition of Mitchell's map of North America. John Mitchell's map of North America was one of the most important American maps of the 18th Century and is the foundation for virtually all boundary disputes and treaties beginning with the French & Indian War. It was drawn from the first available English and Indigenous surveys and includes detail regarding towns, roads, rivers, mountains and other regional features.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps


BMC 53--Massachusetts and Provinces of New Hampshire and Maine, circa 1760
Map of Massachusetts and Provinces of New Hampshire and Maine. Notes "line of scouts and lodgements posted by Governor Pownall." Marks sites of numerous forts throughout the provinces, including Fort Halifax on the Kennebec River. Depicts area from Lake Champlain and Fort William Henry to Penobscot Bay in Maine. Cartographer is unknown and map is undated. Thomas Pownall was Governor of Massachusetts 1757-1760.
  • Type: FILE


BMC 58--Carta Della Nuova Inghilterra Nuova Iork, e Pensilvania; 1763
Map of New England and Mid-Atlantic region prior to the American Revolution. In Delaware only Wilmington and New Castle are shown. Italian edition of Bellin's 1757 map. Appears in Masi's "Il Gazzettiere Americano." Published in Livorno, Italy, 1763.
  • Type: FILE


BMC 60--Nouvelle France, Nova Anglia, Nova Scotia, and Virginia, 1684
Manuscript map by William Hack dated 1684 and covers the east coast from Virginia to Nova Scotia. 'Pennsilvania' is prominently marked on the Delmarva Peninsula. Includes the Great Lakes, described as “the Grand Lake of the Sweet Sea.”
  • Type: FILE



BMC 82--The Harbour of Anapolis Royal, circa 1747

Forms part of series of maps published by Emanuel Bowen circa 1747 as “Particular draughts and plans of some of the principal towns and harbours belonging to the English, French, and Spaniards, in America and West Indies.”
  • Type: FILE


BMC 79A--Plan de la Ville de Quebec, circa 1764
Plan of the city of Quebec circa 1764. Cartographer is unknown but the map is based upon Jacques Bellin's map of the same period.
  • Type: FILE