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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.
- Type: FILE
BMC 25--Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio, circa 1680
- Map of North and South America. California is shown as an island and Great Lakes are shown with an open western coastline. No northwestern coast drawn beyond 40 degrees. The Mississippi River is still very vaguely drawn and pushed far west of its true location. South America retains its excessively wide format. An extension from Button's Bay is shown as a possible Northwest Passage. The map is embellished with two cartouches, 9 sailing vessels and vignettes of native villages, native warriors and indigenous animals.
- Type: FILE
BMC 65--Norumbega et Virginia, 1597
- The map notes the eastern coastline of North America, from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Cape Breton Island. It is a record of European knowledge of the region immediately prior to the English voyages of discovery and settlement in Virginia and New England and Champlain’s French expeditions to eastern Canada. The name Norumbega designated the unknown lands of northeastern America until John Smith explored the region and published his map of 1614 christening the territory New England.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 77--Novi Orbis Pars Borealis, America Scilicet, Complectens Floridam, Baccalaon, Canadam, Terram Corte, 1585
- Map of North America, derived from Cornelis de Jode's 1593 Americae Pars Borealis. This map depicts all of North America from the unexplored Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The map predates the exploration of Samuel de Champlain but draws upon those of Jacques Cartier, Sebastian Cabot, Giovanni Verrazano, Sir Walter Raleigh, John White and Jacques Le Moyne. A long narrow waterway to the north represents the North West Passage. Some place names have been left out, including the settlements of Bermuda, St. Augustine, Roanoke,and Chesapeake. A second peninsula is shown to the west of Florida.
- Type: FILE
BMC 08--Nova Hispania, et Nova Galicia; 1638
- Nova Hispania, et Nova Galicia. Gerhard Mercator, Jan Jansson, and Hendrick Hondius, cartographers. Map displays the Western seaboard of what is now Mexico. Appears in Mercator and Hondius' Atlas Novus. Amstelodami : Apud Henricum Hondium & Joannem Janssonium, 1638.
- Type: FILE
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.
- Type: FILE
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.
- Type: FILE
BMC 09--America Septentrionalis [1641]
- This map of North America shows California as an island. It is richly embellished with a variety of animals throughout the interior, with sailing ships and sea monsters in the oceans. The map is a careful compilation from various sources and represents the current state of cartographic knowledge at that time. There is a single "Lac des Iroguois" in the Great Lakes region. A few place names from John Smith's 1616 map appear in "Nova Anglia." The title cartouche features several Native Americans, and the imprint cartouche features two mermaids. Depicts North America, Central America, and northern part of South America.
- Type: FILE
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