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Description

Type of resource cartographic
Extent 1 map : hand col.; 57 x 96 cm., 59 x 97 cm. including borders.
Place London
Date created [1719]
Map data [ca.1:17,500,000] ; W 173°00ʹ --W 10°00ʹ/N 84°00ʹ --N 7°10ʹ

Creators/Contributors

Creator Moll, Herman, d. 1732.

Subjects

Subject California as an island > Maps
Subject North America > Maps
Genre Map
Genre Digital maps
Genre Early maps

Bibliographic information

Note Engraved by: "B. Lens delin., G. Vertue Sculp." (below title cartouche on left).
Note California as island on second Sanson model. States: "New Albion is laid down according to the observations maed by Sr Francis Drake 1578." "Mozeemleck Country" and "Straits of Annian" to north.
Note Dedicated To the Right Honourable JOHN Lord SOMMERS (within title cartouche bearing coat of arms).
Note "Sold by H. Moll over against Deverux Court in ye Strand. Printed for I. Bowles Print & Map seller at the Black Horse in Cornhill and T. Bowles Print and Mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church yard, and over against Devereux Court, without Temple Bar. And by P. Overton Map and Printseller near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet and by Iohn King at the Globe in the Poultry".
Note Inset: Group of 10 individual maps of harbours. (lower left)
Publications From: The world described , Map 7 / H. Moll. -- London, 1719.
Statement of responsibility by Herman Moll, Geographer.
References Wagner 514; Wheat 105; Tooley 82; Leighly 145.
Original McLaughlin Book Number (1995 edition) 192
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/hy431kv1138

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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

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