Baxter Rare Maps
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BMC 56--Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Maine, 1826
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BMC 60--Nouvelle France, Nova Anglia, Nova Scotia, and Virginia, 1684
- Manuscript map by William Hack dated 1684 and covers the east coast from Virginia to Nova Scotia. 'Pennsilvania' is prominently marked on the Delmarva Peninsula. Includes the Great Lakes, described as “the Grand Lake of the Sweet Sea.”
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 69--Plan of the Bay and Rivers of Penobscot and the Islands Lying There Commonly Called the Fox Islands [...], 1764
- Map of Penobscot Bay, Penobscot River, Passamaquoddy River to the St. Croix surveyed by order of Governor Francis Bernard of Massachusetts. Includes area from Muscongus Bay to Deer Isle and Cobscook Bay and the islands of Isle Au Haut, Burnt Coat, Mount Desert, and Fox Islands (Vinalhaven and North Haven). Notes the route of Lieutenant Montresor between Quebec and Fort Halifax in 1761, and a "Road for Foot Men Only over Megunticook Mountain."
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 78--Sketch of unidentified British fort
- Undated sketch of unidentified British fort. Artist is unknown.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 03--Spanish Dominions in North America, Southern Part; 1811
- A map of the southern part of North America, now known as Central America. This map was published in Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas in September 1811. The map depicts landforms from Oaxaca to Panama and includes the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and the Grand Ocean (Pacific Ocean). Spanish dominions in North America, sourthern part. Drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by L. Hebert. Neele sculpt. 352 Strand. London: published September 11, 1811, by Cadell & Davies, Strand & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 11--A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France under Names of Louisiana, Mississippi, Canada and New France with Adjoining Territories of England and Spain. 1720
- In 1720, London geographer and mapmaker, Herman Moll, published this map focusing on France's North American possessions. In a message below the title, he warned his British audience of French encroachment on neighboring English interests in the region and urged them to preserve old friendships with the Iroquois and Cherokees. The depiction of the Southeast was based on recent English surveys, particularly those of Richard Berresford and Capt. Thomas Naime. However, the Southwest, where California is depicted as island, was based on outdated information that was mistakenly accepted by European mapmakers from the mid-17th century until the early 18th century. Depths shown by soundings. Includes notes and illustration of "The Indian Fort Sasquesahanok." Insets: The harbour of Annapolis Royal -- A map of ye mouth of Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] and Mobile Rivers
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 06--Part of North America containing Canada, the North parts of New England and New York; with Nova Scotia and New found Land; 1759
- Part of North America; containing Canada, the North Parts of New England and New York; with Nova Scotia and Newfound Land. John Barrow, mapmaker, 1759. (9” x 12”) Map of New England, part of Canada and Newfoundland, with a large inset of the Great Lakes, and detail in the Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi regions.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 15--Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nec Non Pennsylvaniae et Partis Virginiae Tabula multis in locis emendata . . .; circa 1684
- Second state of Danckerts’ map of New Netherlands, including a view of New Amsterdam, now also called "Nieuw Yorck." Includes inset view of the Dutch colony on Manhattan Island. The cartographic information is based upon Jansson's map of 1650. This map was issued about 1684 and shows Philadelphia for the first time, as well as adding farm animals. It also shows the Battery and Dutch buildings on the waterfront. The Delaware River is completely revised so that it no longer connects with the Hudson River. Pennsylvania is named; its boundary is marked. The addition of domesticated farm animals in the New Netherlands colony is of historical note. The Dutch colonists were, by the 1680s, increasingly disillusioned with the support they were receiving from Holland. A delegation was sent to Den Haag to appeal for more support, money, settlers, etc. One of the by-products of the colonist's meeting / plea was the revision of this map as a propaganda tool, displaying farm animals in New England in order to entice prospective new colonists to emigrate, on the theory that life in the New World was similar to life in Holland.
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 30--Casco Bay, 1699
- Map of Casco Bay circa 1669. Cartographer unknown. Board of Trade Maps, Vol 10, Number 38
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- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps