Baxter Rare Maps
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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.
BMC 37--Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique Angloise, contenant la Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline, Pensylvania, Nouvelle Iorck, N:Iarsey, N. France, et les terres nouvellement découerte dressé sur les relations les plus nouvelles. Circa 1700
- Eastern North America. Copied from Morden-Brown ca. 1695. An untitled inset at the left shows Boston Harbor and serves to hide some of the unknown western regions. Some illustrated topography shows towns, river systems, individual trees to indicate forests and some banks off the coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Relief shown pictorially. Small compass rose on upper right corner.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
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.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 47--Province of Mayne
- Map of the coast of the Province of Mayne from the Piscataqua River to the Kennebec River. Also includes Massachusetts and Masons Patent. Date and cartographer unknown.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps