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Miniature of BMC 73--Nieuwe Kaart van Kanada, De Landen aan de Hudson's-Baay en de Noordwestelyke deelen van Noord-Amerika, 1769
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.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
Miniature of BMC 67--Route from Fort Pownal to Quebec, 1764
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.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
Miniature of BMC 39--Amerika of de Nieuwe Weerld, circa 1492
BMC 39--Amerika of de Nieuwe Weerld, circa 1492
Decorative map of America, showing California as an Island, prepared to illustrate Vander Aa's Dutch translation of the report of Columbus' first voyage to America. Includes an incomplete Great Lakes, unknown Northwest Coast of America, highly inaccurate mapping of the Mississippi River, the 7 Cities of Cibola and a largely incomplete knowledge of the region which would become New Zealand and Australia. South America misprojected in a very wide fashion.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
Miniature of BMC 47--Province of Mayne
BMC 47--Province of Mayne
Map of the coast of the Province of Mayne from the Piscataqua River to the Kennebec River. Also includes Massachusetts and Masons Patent. Date and cartographer unknown.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
Miniature of BMC 84--A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships : the whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations, 1774
BMC 84--A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships : the whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations, 1774
This large, detailed map of New England was compiled by Braddock Mead (alias John Green), and first published by Thomas Jefferys in 1755. Green was an Irish translator, geographer, and editor, as well as one of the most talented British map-makers at mid-century. The map was re-published at the outset of the American Revolution, as it remained the most accurate and detailed survey of New England. Of interest are engraved double lines found beneath certain place-names, including Boston. These lines indicate cities whose longitude had been calculated with the aid of the newly invented marine chronometer. Includes compilation data and insets of "A plan of the town of Boston" and "A plan of Boston Harbor from an accurate survey."
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
Miniature of BMC 54--Pascatway River in New England, circa 1670
BMC 54--Pascatway River in New England, circa 1670
The surveyor who drew the original map is unknown, except for his initials "J. S." The map is undated. The first letter of each line of verse just to the right of the map's title, when read vertically from top to bottom, spells out "James Duke of York." The map was therefore made sometime between 1660 and 1685, during the reign of Charles II of England, when his younger brother James held the title of Duke of York.
The surveyor was trying to flatter the duke:

Just Great and Good are Princely epithets
And each of these your highness well befitts
My aime with your great virtues cannot want
Encouragement (craving what's fit to grant)
Serenest Prince I heer (unto your eye)
Declare (by mapp) how England's strength doth lye
Unseen in rivers of the New Plantations
Kingly commanding heads of other nations
Equally it to honor neither Spain
Or the boasting Dutch can shew the like againe!
Freely accept (Great Sire) the loyaltie
Your meanest servant offers to your eye
Oceans and rivers ring loud peales of faime
Resounding echoes to your honor'd name
Kind heav'ns and stars continue long the same.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
Miniature of BMC 33--Profile of Pemaquid Fort
BMC 33--Profile of Pemaquid Fort
Sketch map of Pemaquid Fort. Cartographer and date unknown. Board of Trade maps, Vol. 10, Number 48.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
Miniature of BMC 05--Spanish Dominions in North America, Northern Part; 1811
BMC 05--Spanish Dominions in North America, Northern Part; 1811
Spanish dominions in North America, northern part. Drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by L. Hebert. Neele sculpt. 352 Strand. London: published Nov. 1, 1811, by Cadell & Davies, Strand & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row.Engraved map. Full hand col. Shows mines, farms, station of muleteers, garrisons or military posts, tribes, etc. Relief shown by hachures.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Baxter Rare Maps