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Miniature of BMC 64--Almond-shaped Mappa Mundi by Ranulf Higden circa 1350
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.
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Miniature of BMC 23--Americae Mappa generalis, circa 1746
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.
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Miniature of BMC 21--Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima geographicè exhibita, c. 1720
BMC 21--Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima geographicè exhibita, c. 1720
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.
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Miniature of BMC 14 -- L'Amerique Septentrionale [...]; 1742
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.
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Miniature of BMC 71--Extrema Americae Versus Boream, ubi Terra Nova Nova Francia
BMC 71--Extrema Americae Versus Boream, ubi Terra Nova Nova Francia
Early map of Eastern Canada, etc., from the 1662 Latin edition of Blaeu's Atlas Maior, which shows Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Labrador and the Davis and Hudson Straits as well as the southern tip of Greenland. It was the most extensive and accurate portrayal of New France available at that time, due largely to the fact that it was carefully copied from Champlain's map of 1632. The elaborate title cartouches symbolize the importance of the Grand Banks fisheries, which are noted on the map.
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Miniature of BMC 16--Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia, 1639
BMC 16--Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia, 1639
Map of the East Coast of North America, from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia. Jansson based his map upon Johannes De Laet’s map of 1630 (created and engraved by Hessel Gerritsz of the Dutch East India Company), which is generally regarded as the source map for New England and the Northeast, being the first to name in any form Manhattan, New Amsterdam, the North River (Hudson) and South River (Delaware), along with the first appearance of Massachusetts (and the recently established English Colony therein). The two maps provided the best representation to date of the coastline, and are among the earliest printed maps to document English settlement in New England and Dutch settlement along the Hudson River. Jansson did not include the updated cartography provided by Champlain’s map. This is also an early map to identify any part of the Great Lakes, with Grand Lac and Lac des Yroquois (Ontario or Erie) depicted. The only European settlement shown in New England is Plymouth, established in 1620. Further south shows the Dutch settlements of New Amsterdam (New York City) and Fort Orange (Albany). Published in Mercator's 1639 Nouvel Atlas.
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Miniature of BMC 17--Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali, circa 1745
BMC 17--Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali, circa 1745
In the mid-18th century, the Homann Heirs issued this group of four maps on a single sheet, which are based upon earlier maps by Herman Moll, published in London. Each of the maps was separately issued in Moll's Atlas Minor. The map titles are New Engelland, New York, New Yersey, und Pensilvania; Carolina neksteinem Theil von Florida; Virginia und Maryland; and New Founland od Terra Nova S. Laurentii Bay…New Schotland. The text at the bottom includes notes on the maps and the Iroquois Indians. The maps include the most current information from the British Colonies, including dozens of place names, Indian settlements, roads, and postal information. The maps also provide details on indigenous battles with the Indians by Col. Barnwell and Col Craven in the Carolina map, and details on Indian and English plantations on the Maryland and Virginia map.
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