Baxter Rare Maps
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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
BMC 84--A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships : the whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations, 1774
- This large, detailed map of New England was compiled by Braddock Mead (alias John Green), and first published by Thomas Jefferys in 1755. Green was an Irish translator, geographer, and editor, as well as one of the most talented British map-makers at mid-century. The map was re-published at the outset of the American Revolution, as it remained the most accurate and detailed survey of New England. Of interest are engraved double lines found beneath certain place-names, including Boston. These lines indicate cities whose longitude had been calculated with the aid of the newly invented marine chronometer. Includes compilation data and insets of "A plan of the town of Boston" and "A plan of Boston Harbor from an accurate survey."
1774
BMC 54--Pascatway River in New England, circa 1670
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The surveyor who drew the original map is unknown, except for his initials "J. S." The map is undated.
The first letter of each line of verse just to the right of the map's title, when read vertically from top to bottom, spells out "James Duke of York." The map was therefore made sometime between 1660 and 1685, during the reign of Charles II of England, when his younger brother James held the title of Duke of York.
The surveyor was trying to flatter the duke:
Just Great and Good are Princely epithets
And each of these your highness well befitts
My aime with your great virtues cannot want
Encouragement (craving what's fit to grant)
Serenest Prince I heer (unto your eye)
Declare (by mapp) how England's strength doth lye
Unseen in rivers of the New Plantations
Kingly commanding heads of other nations
Equally it to honor neither Spain
Or the boasting Dutch can shew the like againe!
Freely accept (Great Sire) the loyaltie
Your meanest servant offers to your eye
Oceans and rivers ring loud peales of faime
Resounding echoes to your honor'd name
Kind heav'ns and stars continue long the same.
1670
BMC 05--Spanish Dominions in North America, Northern Part; 1811
- Spanish dominions in North America, northern part. Drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by L. Hebert. Neele sculpt. 352 Strand. London: published Nov. 1, 1811, by Cadell & Davies, Strand & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row.Engraved map. Full hand col. Shows mines, farms, station of muleteers, garrisons or military posts, tribes, etc. Relief shown by hachures.
1811
BMC 75--Nuova ed esatta Carta Della America Ricavata dale Mappe, e carte piu approvate, 1763
- Map of North and South America engraved by Andrea Scacciati and published in Il Gazzettiere Americano by Marco Coltellini, Livorno, 1763. The atlas is the first Italian translation of "The American Gazetteer" published in 1762. The maps accompanying the atlas are derived from the French cartographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin. The works bear the signatures of Veremondo Rossi, Andrea Scacciati, Giuseppe Maria Terreni and also Violante Vanni, a rare case of Italian women's engagement in the cartographic field.
1763
BMC 71--Extrema Americae Versus Boream, ubi Terra Nova Nova Francia
- Early map of Eastern Canada, etc., from the 1662 Latin edition of Blaeu's Atlas Maior, which shows Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Labrador and the Davis and Hudson Straits as well as the southern tip of Greenland. It was the most extensive and accurate portrayal of New France available at that time, due largely to the fact that it was carefully copied from Champlain's map of 1632. The elaborate title cartouches symbolize the importance of the Grand Banks fisheries, which are noted on the map.
1662
BMC 16--Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia, 1639
- Map of the East Coast of North America, from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia. Jansson based his map upon Johannes De Laet’s map of 1630 (created and engraved by Hessel Gerritsz of the Dutch East India Company), which is generally regarded as the source map for New England and the Northeast, being the first to name in any form Manhattan, New Amsterdam, the North River (Hudson) and South River (Delaware), along with the first appearance of Massachusetts (and the recently established English Colony therein). The two maps provided the best representation to date of the coastline, and are among the earliest printed maps to document English settlement in New England and Dutch settlement along the Hudson River. Jansson did not include the updated cartography provided by Champlain’s map. This is also an early map to identify any part of the Great Lakes, with Grand Lac and Lac des Yroquois (Ontario or Erie) depicted. The only European settlement shown in New England is Plymouth, established in 1620. Further south shows the Dutch settlements of New Amsterdam (New York City) and Fort Orange (Albany). Published in Mercator's 1639 Nouvel Atlas.
1639
BMC 17--Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali, circa 1745
- In the mid-18th century, the Homann Heirs issued this group of four maps on a single sheet, which are based upon earlier maps by Herman Moll, published in London. Each of the maps was separately issued in Moll's Atlas Minor. The map titles are New Engelland, New York, New Yersey, und Pensilvania; Carolina neksteinem Theil von Florida; Virginia und Maryland; and New Founland od Terra Nova S. Laurentii Bay…New Schotland. The text at the bottom includes notes on the maps and the Iroquois Indians. The maps include the most current information from the British Colonies, including dozens of place names, Indian settlements, roads, and postal information. The maps also provide details on indigenous battles with the Indians by Col. Barnwell and Col Craven in the Carolina map, and details on Indian and English plantations on the Maryland and Virginia map.
1745