Baxter Rare Maps
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BMC 42-Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima geographice exhibita, circa 1720
- See also BMC 21. 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.
- Type: FILE
BMC 61--A Survey for Six Townships On East Side of Penobscot River, 1713
- Map of six Townships on east side of Penobscot River, 1713. Neskeag Point, Cape Rosier, Fort Pownal, fort ruins at Castine, Blue Hill, Placentia Bay, and Mount Desert River are depicted. Cartographer unknown.
- Type: FILE
BMC 64--Almond-shaped Mappa Mundi by Ranulf Higden circa 1350
- An example of Higden’s mandorla (almond-shaped) mappa mundi, or medieval map of the world and is oriented with East at the top. It uses place names to show relative positions and locations and virtually no attempt to draw the actual landmasses or bodies of water. Original map in the collections of the British Library, Royal MS. 14 C.xii, fol. 9v.
- Type: FILE
BMC 70--Partie orientale du Canada, avec la Nouvelle Angleterre, l'Acadie, et la Terre-Neuve par le S. D'Anville, 1776
- Map of northeastern Canada, New York and New England based upon D'Anville's map of 1746.
- Type: FILE
BMC 15--Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nec Non Pennsylvaniae et Partis Virginiae Tabula multis in locis emendata . . .; circa 1684
- Second state of Danckerts’ map of New Netherlands, including a view of New Amsterdam, now also called "Nieuw Yorck." Includes inset view of the Dutch colony on Manhattan Island. The cartographic information is based upon Jansson's map of 1650. This map was issued about 1684 and shows Philadelphia for the first time, as well as adding farm animals. It also shows the Battery and Dutch buildings on the waterfront. The Delaware River is completely revised so that it no longer connects with the Hudson River. Pennsylvania is named; its boundary is marked. The addition of domesticated farm animals in the New Netherlands colony is of historical note. The Dutch colonists were, by the 1680s, increasingly disillusioned with the support they were receiving from Holland. A delegation was sent to Den Haag to appeal for more support, money, settlers, etc. One of the by-products of the colonist's meeting / plea was the revision of this map as a propaganda tool, displaying farm animals in New England in order to entice prospective new colonists to emigrate, on the theory that life in the New World was similar to life in Holland.
- Type: FILE
BMC 12--A new and exact map of the dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America, containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina. 1731
- Mapmaker: Herman Moll; [London] Printed and sold by T. Bowles, J. Bowles, and I. King, 1715 [i.e. 1731] Insets: A view of ye industry of ye beavers of Canada ... the cataract of Niagara ...---A draught of ye town and harbour of Charles-town.--A map of the principal part of North America.--A map of the improved part of Carolina with the settlements &c.--South part of Carolina and the east part of Florida ...
- Type: FILE
BMC 23--Americae Mappa generalis, circa 1746
- This 18th century map depicts the Americas with the various political regions color-coded. The ''Line of Demarcation'' is accurately drawn, and a great deal of Western Europe and Western Africa is included. Indian tribes are located throughout the map. In North America California is shown in peninsular form; however the northwest region is still in doubt (and completely omitted). The mythical region of Quivira also remains on the North American continent. The elaborate title cartouche depicts Native Americans surrounded by plants, birds and items indigenous to the continents, with volcanoes erupting in the background.
- Type: FILE
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