Baxter Rare Maps

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BMC 57--Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Maine, circa 1822
Early map of Maine, hand colored by counties. Roads, towns, rivers, and lakes are included on map. Key notes flags for 10 remarkable battles. Text surrounds map, which includes details concerning the topography, indigenous lands, rivers, climate, towns, manufacturing, commerce, education, history, population by county, and other information.Buchon follows the format of Carey & Lea's Atlas. The atlas was issued in six editions in English, French & German between 1822 and 1827.
1822

BMC 51--The Prospect of Saco Fort, 1699
Map of Saco Fort circa 1699. Includes Captain's lodgings, Indian magazine, Lieutenants' rooms, Sergeants' rooms, soldiers' rooms, store house, blacksmith shop, and Indian Island. See also BMC 50.
1699

BMC 77--Novi Orbis Pars Borealis, America Scilicet, Complectens Floridam, Baccalaon, Canadam, Terram Corte, 1585
Map of North America, derived from Cornelis de Jode's 1593 Americae Pars Borealis. This map depicts all of North America from the unexplored Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The map predates the exploration of Samuel de Champlain but draws upon those of Jacques Cartier, Sebastian Cabot, Giovanni Verrazano, Sir Walter Raleigh, John White and Jacques Le Moyne. A long narrow waterway to the north represents the North West Passage. Some place names have been left out, including the settlements of Bermuda, St. Augustine, Roanoke,and Chesapeake. A second peninsula is shown to the west of Florida.
1585

BMC 81--The Fort Upon Great Island In Piscataqua River 1699
Early sketch of Fort William and Mary on the Piscataqua River in New Hampshire circa 1699. Fort was abandoned by the British Army and rebuilt as Fort Constitution in 1808. Artist is unknown.
1699

BMC 08--Nova Hispania, et Nova Galicia; 1638
Nova Hispania, et Nova Galicia. Gerhard Mercator, Jan Jansson, and Hendrick Hondius, cartographers. Map displays the Western seaboard of what is now Mexico. Appears in Mercator and Hondius' Atlas Novus. Amstelodami : Apud Henricum Hondium & Joannem Janssonium, 1638.
1638

BMC 31--Casco Bay Fort in the Province of Main[e] in America, 1705
Casco Bay Fort in the Province of Main[e] in America, Latitude 44-00. Sepia print of the original compiled by J. Redknap. 1 inch to approx. 15 feet. A key identifies individual structures within the fort.
1705

BMC 30--Casco Bay, 1699
Map of Casco Bay circa 1669. Cartographer unknown. Board of Trade Maps, Vol 10, Number 38
1699

BMC 41--New Ireland and Main[e], 1770
Survey of New Ireland and Main[e] by Samuel Holland, Surveyor General for England. Includes New Hampshire and Nova Scotia borders, the Bay of Fundy "or Argal," the St. John River, and the Territory of Sagadahok.
1770

BMC 46--A Map of Piscataqua River, 1708
Map of Piscataqua River from Portsmouth to Berwick in 1708. Mapmaker is unknown.
1708