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Letter to John Hodsdon from Stephen W. Laughton
- Letter to Adjutant General John Hodsdon asking about enrollment and whether to call out his company before receiving orders.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Incoming Municipal Correspondence
BMC 45--Le Nouveau Continent Figure dans la Mappemonde de Juan de la Cosa en 1500.
- This 1834 atlas was issued as part of Humboldt and Bonpland’s Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 (Paris, 1808-1834), which was published in over thirty volumes over several decades. Included in the atlas is this first printing of a manuscript map made by Spanish conquistador, cartographer, and explorer Juan de la Cosa (ca. 1460-1509), who sailed with the first three voyages of Columbus and was the owner of the Santa María. This chart (XXXIII) incorporates lands discovered in America up to 1500 during expeditions by Spanish, Portuguese, and English expeditions to America. Juan de la Cosa’s mappa mundi is believed to be the earliest extant map showing any part of the continent of North America.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 48--A Plan of the Compact Part of the Town of Exeter at the Head of the Southerly Branch of Piscataqua River, 1802
- Map of Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire drawn by Phinehas Merrill. Oriented with north to the right. Buildings (some labeled) shown pictorially.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 57--Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Maine, circa 1822
- Early map of Maine, hand colored by counties. Roads, towns, rivers, and lakes are included on map. Key notes flags for 10 remarkable battles. Text surrounds map, which includes details concerning the topography, indigenous lands, rivers, climate, towns, manufacturing, commerce, education, history, population by county, and other information. Buchon follows the format of Carey & Lea's Atlas. The atlas was issued in six editions in English, French & German between 1822 and 1827.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 58--Carta Della Nuova Inghilterra Nuova Iork, e Pensilvania; 1763
- Map of New England and Mid-Atlantic region prior to the American Revolution. In Delaware only Wilmington and New Castle are shown. Italian edition of Bellin's 1757 map. Appears in Masi's "Il Gazzettiere Americano." Published in Livorno, Italy, 1763.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
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: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps