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BMC 83--The Harbour of Placentia, circa 1747
- Map of Placentia Harbour in Newfoundland/Labrador. Forms part of series of maps published by Emanuel Bowen circa 1747 as “Particular draughts and plans of some of the principal towns and harbours belonging to the English, French, and Spaniards, in America and West Indies.”
1747
BMC 14 -- L'Amerique Septentrionale [...]; 1742
- L'Amerique septentrionale...dressée sur les observations de mrs. de L'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres & sur les memoires les plus recens par G. de L'Isle. (Title in upper margin:) America Septentrionalis in suas praecipuas partes divisa, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis. (1742) Cornelius Mortier and Johannes Covens' re-engraved and nearly identical verison of D'Isle's map of North America. Shows routes of Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana and Olivier in the Pacific. Extends east to the Azores. Illustrated title cartouche.
1742
BMC 18--Americae Nova Tabula, 1640
- Dutch map of America circa 1640. Includes the West Coast of America (which did not follow the California as an Island myth) and dozens of place names along the East Coast. Nine decorative views of important American Cities and Harbors across the top and 10 miniatures of Native Americans of various regions along the side panels. The map is also embellished with eight sailing ships, four sea monsters and vignettes in the interior of the continent showing Indian life.
1640
BMC 20--Carte De La Nouvelle France des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens and de Mississippi, ca. 1719
- Henri Chatelain's map of the inhabited parts of North America, based upon Nicholas De Fer's map published in 1718. At the top left of the map is large scale map of the Mississippi Delta and Mobile Bay, based upon the 1699 voyage of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. The inset also appears on De Fer's rare 4 sheet map of 1718, upon which this map is based. Chatelain's one sheet version of De Fer's map includes a view of Quebec and detail in the Great Lakes and Mississippi.
1719
BMC 22--Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova, circa 1635
- This elaborately decorated map is based on the 1614 explorations of Adrian Block, a fur trader working for the Dutch, who sailed from the north shore of Long Island to explore the southern coast of New England. Willem Blaeu, the premier Dutch map and globe maker of that period, published this map of New York and New England based largely on Block's reports. Oriented with west at the top and the north at the right, it is the first printed map to depict details of the interior of New England. It shows New England south to Cape Henry, Virginia. Includes decorative cartouche and North American motifs, including Native Americans and their villages and canoes, as well as bears, beavers, turkeys, and other fauna.
1635
BMC 26--Carte de L'Amerique, circa 1822
- French map of North and Central America. Cartographer unknown. Includes names of major states and towns.
1822
BMC 27--The British Colonies in North America, 1777
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Map of the United States east of the Great Plains and Eastern Canada showing the locations of settlements, forts, and natural features. Engraved by William Faden.
1777
BMC 29--Plan de la Baie et du Havre de Casco et des i'les adjacentes, par Cyprian Southack. Redige', d'apre's un plan anglois, au Depot general des cartes, plans et journaux de la marine. Par ordre de M. de Sartine, conseiller d'Etat, ministre et secretaire d'Etat au Departement de la marine, 1779
- Title translation: Plan of Casco Bay and Harbour and adjacent islands, by Cyprian Southack. Written, according to an English map, general deposit maps, plans and navy newspapers. By order of Sartine, state councilor, Minister and Secretary of State at the Department of the Navy. Nautical chart of Casco Bay and surrounding settlements including Casco Fort. Depths shown by soundings. Captain Cyprian Southack (1662-1745) explored Portland harbor in 1698 and published his chart in London in 1720. It appeared, with minor modifications, in many editions of The English Pilot between 1721 and the 1790s. Here it has been appropriated by the French, where it appeared in Neptune Americo-Septentrionale at the time of the American Revolution. By the time this French version appeared, the British had vastly superior charts of Casco Bay that were included in The Atlantic Neptune.
1779
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
BMC 73--Nieuwe Kaart van Kanada, De Landen aan de Hudson's-Baay en de Noordwestelyke deelen van Noord-Amerika, 1769
- Map of Canada and the Upper Midwest, focused on the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay, showing the region shortly after the end of the French and Indian War. Included are the Hudson Bay Company forts and factories and the approximate locations of the native American tribes in the area. The map extends eastward to the Atlantic, with a large part of New England depicted.
1769