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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.
- Type: OBJECT
- 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.
- Type: OBJECT
- 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.
- Type: OBJECT
- 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
- Type: OBJECT
- 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.
- Type: OBJECT
- 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.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 68B--Province Massachusetts Bay Penobscot Dominions of Great Britain Possession Confirm'd by Thos. Pownall Govr.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
[J. P. Leilley] requesting information about Isaac B. Harris
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Maine Volunteer Militia (Post-Civil War)
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: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 36--Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possédent sur le continent de l'Amérique septentrionale savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize provinces unies qui font: les quatres colonies de la Nouvelle Angleterre ... 1776
- Map of the British Colonies, which identifies each of the 13 Colonies by name in the title and in the map, at the outbreak of the American Revolution. Maryland is an odd shape for the time period. Includes detail in the Great Lakes region and a few places named in the Ohio Valley. Ft. Necessite is also shown. The map is very Franco-centric, limiting British claims to the regions east of the Appalachian Mountains.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps