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THB* MOLL, Herman (1654?-1732). The World Described; or a new and correct sett of maps. [from letterpress contents leaf]. [London:
Lot 93
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* MOLL, Herman (1654?-1732). The World Described; or a new and correct sett of maps. [from letterpress contents leaf]. [London: J. & T. Bowles, ca 1740-1745.]
Folio (620 x 525 mm). Title-page and contents leaf trimmed and mounted to pastedown. 30 engraved folding maps (double-page and folding), hand-colored in outline, all on guards, additional plates and maps mounted to some versos and blank areas. (Browning, staining, and creasing throughout, some maps with marginal chipping or fraying, a few maps separated at fold occasionally with repairs, map of the South Sea Company smaller, laid in, and with the three smaller maps on one sheet.) Contemporary blind calf (worn, broken).
Later issue of Moll's important atlas, containing 2 World maps and 6 maps of the Americas. The maps conform to Steven's Catalogue "H," issue i, except: The New and Correct Map of the World (issue j, with a variant dedication not in Stephens); A New & Correct Map of the Whole World (issue d); and An Historical Map of the Roman Empire (issue k). A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America, known as the "Beaver Map," due to the vignette showing wildlife around Nigara Falls, is one of the most important maps of North America delineating the French and English claims. Phillips 554; Henry Stevens and Henry Robert Peter Stevens, The World Described in thirty large two-sheet maps by Herman Moll Geographer (1952). Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return.
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