Baxter Rare Maps
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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.
- Type: FILE
BMC 28--L'Amerique Septentrionale. Dressee sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens. Par G. de l'Isle, Geographe. A Paris, chez l'Auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge, avec Privilege du Roy pour 20. ans, 1700.
- Engraved of North and Central America outlined in color. Shows routes of Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana and Olivier in the Pacific. Extends east to the Azores. Title cartouche is by "N. Guerard, inv. et fec."
- Type: FILE
BMC 32--Saco River and Winter Harbour, 1699
- Map of Saco River and Winter Harbour (now Casco). Cartographer unknown. Board of Trade maps, Vol. 10, Number 21.
- Type: FILE
BMC 13--L'Amerique, ou, Le nouveau continent : dresseè sur les memoires les plus nouveaux et sur les relations les plus recentes, rectifiez sur les dernieres observàtions. 1742
- Published in Paris by John Baptist Nolin (mapmaker); Engraver: Charles Cochin Covers Western Hemisphere from New Zealand to western coast of Europe and Africa. Rare map of America, one of the earliest to illustrate the Sea of the West. The map also includes an interesting treatment of Florida as an Archipelago, and detail in California and the Mississippi Valley. Also includes an interesting projection of New Zealand and location of many Islands in the Pacific, many of which are either fanciful or badly misplaced. Nolin dedicates this map to Monseigneur LAW controlleur general des finances. John Law was a Scottish financier, who was masterminding the economic recovery of France, one element of his plan being the exploitation of the French possessions in Louisiana, the so-called Mississippi scheme, which was briefly successful and set off a wild period of speculation, before the Mississippi Bubble burst. Law fled to Venice in disgrace, but not before creating one of the first speculative booms based upon American real estate.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 19--Carte nouvelle contenant la partie d'Amerique la plus septentrionale, ou sont exactement dêcrites les provinces suivantes comme le Canada ou Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Ecosse, la Nouvelle Angleterre, les Nouveaux Païs Bas, la Pensylvanie, la Virginie, la Caroline et l'Jle de Terre Neuve avec les profondeuis le long des côtes et sur les bancs
- Map of southeastern Canada and Newfoundland. Includes Nova Scotia and Acadia, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Cape Breton, and the Grand Banks fishing grounds.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 35--Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France et des decouvertes qui y ont été faites
- De L'Isle's seminal map of Canada, the Great Lakes, Rocky Mountain area, and Upper Midwest; one of the most important and influential maps of Canada published in the 18th Century. Engraved map in outline color. Shows forested areas. Covers eastern Canada and the United States south to 39 degrees N. Incorporates Lahontan's imaginary features including the Pays des Gnacsitares and the Riviere Morte.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps