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BMC 43--Tabula Terre Nove (Admiral’s Map), [Northwestern Portion], 1513
- Martin Waldseemüller 'Tabula Terra Nova' from Claudius Ptolemaeus Geographia, Strasbourg, 1513. One of twenty maps containing new information gathered from many travels and voyages of discovery, which earned the work the title of 'first modern atlas of the world.' It was also the first printed map to show part of America. This version depicts just the northwestern section of Ptolemy's map.
1513
BMC 44--A Map of Vinland From Accounts Contained in Old Northern MSS, 1837
- A map of Vinland : from accounts contained in Old Northern MSS by Charles C. Rafn ; P. Seehusen sc. Copenhagen : Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, 1837. This is a map of Massachusetts Bay and parts of New England. This map depicts early Norse exploration and is created from descriptions by Norse travelers in New England.
1837
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.
1720
BMC 36--Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possédent sur le continent de l'Amérique septentrionale savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize provinces unies qui font: les quatres colonies de la Nouvelle Angleterre ... 1776
- Map of the British Colonies, which identifies each of the 13 Colonies by name in the title and in the map, at the outbreak of the American Revolution. Maryland is an odd shape for the time period. Includes detail in the Great Lakes region and a few places named in the Ohio Valley. Ft. Necessite is also shown. The map is very Franco-centric, limiting British claims to the regions east of the Appalachian Mountains.
1776
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
BMC 63--Nova Francia et Regiones Adiacentes, 1633
- Map of the East Coast of North America, extending from Cape Cod to Newfoundland. De Laet’s map appeared in his seminal work on America, which is widely regarded as the most important and influential treatise on the subject published in the 17th Century. The map provides the best representations of the coastline and is referred to as "one of the foundation maps of Canada" and "the first printed map to include an accurate Prince Edward Island, and the earliest depiction of a north-south oriented Lake Champlain."
1633
BMC 67--Route from Fort Pownal to Quebec, 1764
- "A Draught of a Rout from Fort Pownall on Penobscot River by way of Piscataquess River, Lake Sabim, Wolf River, and the River Chaudiere, to Quebec, and back again to Fort Pownall, by Penobscot River. Taken by order of His Excellency Francis Bernard. Esq: Governor &c of His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 1764." Map of route to Quebec from Fort Pownal on the Penobscot River, based on a survey undertaken by Joseph Chadwick during 1764.
1764
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.
1776