Baxter Rare Maps
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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.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 26--Carte de L'Amerique, circa 1822
- French map of North and Central America. Cartographer unknown. Includes names of major states and towns.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 27--The British Colonies in North America, 1777
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Map of the United States east of the Great Plains and Eastern Canada showing the locations of settlements, forts, and natural features. Engraved by William Faden.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 29--Plan de la Baie et du Havre de Casco et des i'les adjacentes, par Cyprian Southack. Redige', d'apre's un plan anglois, au Depot general des cartes, plans et journaux de la marine. Par ordre de M. de Sartine, conseiller d'Etat, ministre et secretaire d'Etat au Departement de la marine, 1779
- Title translation: Plan of Casco Bay and Harbour and adjacent islands, by Cyprian Southack. Written, according to an English map, general deposit maps, plans and navy newspapers. By order of Sartine, state councilor, Minister and Secretary of State at the Department of the Navy. Nautical chart of Casco Bay and surrounding settlements including Casco Fort. Depths shown by soundings. Captain Cyprian Southack (1662-1745) explored Portland harbor in 1698 and published his chart in London in 1720. It appeared, with minor modifications, in many editions of The English Pilot between 1721 and the 1790s. Here it has been appropriated by the French, where it appeared in Neptune Americo-Septentrionale at the time of the American Revolution. By the time this French version appeared, the British had vastly superior charts of Casco Bay that were included in The Atlantic Neptune.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 72--Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Monde; Dessignee en deux plan-Hemispheres par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire de la Majeste, 1651
- First map of the world, published by the single most important French mapmaker of the 17th Century, whose modernistic approach to cartography would redefine commercial cartography and end Dutch domination of the commercial map trade. Sanson's double hemisphere map of the world is a noteworthy depiction of the island of California and the Great Lakes of North America.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
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.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 01--Spanish East Coast of Western Hemisphere & part of African West Coast, (p 6 & 7)
- Spanish or Portuguese East Coast of Western Hemisphere & part of African West Coast. Date and cartographer unknown
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
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.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
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.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 68B--Province Massachusetts Bay Penobscot Dominions of Great Britain Possession Confirm'd by Thos. Pownall Govr.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps