A New Map of the WHOLE WORLD with the Trade winds According to ye latest and most Exact Observations

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Description

Type of resource cartographic
Extent 12.2 cm. diameter hemispheres, on sheet 19.6 x 26.2 cm.
Place London
Date created [1732?]
Map data [ca. 1:200,000,000] ; W 180° --E 180°/N 85° --S 85°

Creators/Contributors

Creator Moll, Herman, d. 1732.

Subjects

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

Bibliographic information

State 1 Map dated 1727.
State 2 1729, with date removed. Issued in his: Atlas Minor... , [London, 1729].
State 3 Without date on map. To front the Title to Vol. 1 p 1 (top left, above border). 1 (top right, above border). Imprint below map: Printed for Thos. Bowles Print and Map Seller next ye Chapter Hoyle in St. Pauls Church yard, and John Bowles Print and Map Seller at the Black Horse in Cornhill London. Issued in: Modern history, or the present state of all nations / Thomas Salmon. -- London, 1736. Reissued in 1744-1746.
State 4 [1732?], as in State 3, but with text at top left imperfectly scratched out. Issued in his: Atlas Minor ... 2nd ed. / Printed for T. Bowles and J. Bowles. -- London, [1732?]. Reprinted in [1736?] and [1745?].
Statement of responsibility By H. Moll Geographer.
Publications Issued in his: A set of thirty-two new and correct maps ... , [London, 1727?].
References LC 574, 578, 585, 602; Wagner 534, Leighly 148; UCB.
Note Polar projection of the North Pole shown at top between the hemispheres.
Note Note above the western hemisphere explains the trade wind lines and the abbreviations used for direction and date of yearly occurrence. Legend above the eastern hemisphere includes the signs of the Zodiac.
Note Below the map are four figures representing the continents. In the middle a woman being showered with a wide array of gifts. Above her head are Hebrew letters.
Note California with a flat northern coast. Annian Str. shown to the north. Trade winds indicated by hachuring with the prevailing wind directions shown by arrows.
Post publication map number 1022
Post publication map number with latest state information 1022-04
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/px053ft5911

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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

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