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Miniature of BMC 39--Amerika of de Nieuwe Weerld, circa 1492
BMC 39--Amerika of de Nieuwe Weerld, circa 1492
Decorative map of America, showing California as an Island, prepared to illustrate Vander Aa's Dutch translation of the report of Columbus' first voyage to America. Includes an incomplete Great Lakes, unknown Northwest Coast of America, highly inaccurate mapping of the Mississippi River, the 7 Cities of Cibola and a largely incomplete knowledge of the region which would become New Zealand and Australia. South America misprojected in a very wide fashion.
1492
Miniature of Copy of Deed Number Thirteen to William Bingham
Copy of Deed Number Thirteen to William Bingham
1793
Miniature of Copy of Deed Number Fourteen to William Bingham
Copy of Deed Number Fourteen to William Bingham
1793
Miniature of Copy of Deed Number One of the Purchase of townships No. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 to William Bingham
Copy of Deed Number One of the Purchase of townships No. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 to William Bingham
1793
Miniature of BMC 62B--L'Acadia, le Provincie di Sagadahook e Main, la Nuova Hampshire, la Rhode Island, e parte di Massachusset e Connceticut, 1778
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.
1778
Miniature of BMC 40--Plan of Part of Penobscot River, 1771
BMC 40--Plan of Part of Penobscot River, 1771
Survey of Penobscot River in 1771. Includes lands belonging to General Waldo's heirs, Province Lands and Governor Hutchinson. Mentions Fort Pownall, Fort Halifax, Cape Jellison, Frankfort Township, and Indian lands.
1771
Miniature of BMC 52--Province of New Hampshire, 1730
BMC 52--Province of New Hampshire, 1730
Map of the Province of New Hampshire with note "rec'd from Col. Dunbar with his letter to the Sec'y dated at Boston 2 May 1730." Notes "Charter Division Line between the Provinces 3 miles N[orth] of the Meremack River." David Dunbar (1728–1737) was a British military officer; as Surveyor of the King's Woods he made numerous enemies in his enforcement of regulations governing the cutting of trees that could be used as ship masts. He was the leader of an attempt to establish a colony named "Georgia" in what is now the central coast of Maine, and was in 1730 commissioned as lieutenant governor of the Province of New Hampshire in an attempt to strengthen his authority. He engaged in frequent disputes with New Hampshire's Governor Jonathan Belcher. He established Fort Frederick in Maine.
1730
Miniature of BMC 69--Plan of the Bay and Rivers of Penobscot and the Islands Lying There Commonly Called the Fox Islands [...], 1764
BMC 69--Plan of the Bay and Rivers of Penobscot and the Islands Lying There Commonly Called the Fox Islands [...], 1764
Map of Penobscot Bay, Penobscot River, Passamaquoddy River to the St. Croix surveyed by order of Governor Francis Bernard of Massachusetts. Includes area from Muscongus Bay to Deer Isle and Cobscook Bay and the islands of Isle Au Haut, Burnt Coat, Mount Desert, and Fox Islands (Vinalhaven and North Haven). Notes the route of Lieutenant Montresor between Quebec and Fort Halifax in 1761, and a "Road for Foot Men Only over Megunticook Mountain."
1764
Miniature of 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
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
Miniature of BMC 21--Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima geographicè exhibita, c. 1720
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