![[ World Atlas -- Extra Illustrated ] The World Described; or, a New and Correct Sett of Maps: Shewing, the Kingdoms and States in all the known Parts of the Earth By Herman Moll / John Bowles](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/90102.jpg)
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Herman Moll's Greatest Atlas, in Superb Original Wash Color. A Highly Desirable and Rare Presentation.
Tall folio, expertly bound to style in full calf. Covers in a paneled design
Herman Moll's excellent collection of his large-format maps, including two world maps and six treating the Americas. This example of the atlas substantially enriched by the fact that the maps are present in full original wash color (see condition description).
This is the only example of the atlas in full original color that we have seen come to the market in over a decade. The last example in full color was also much more oxidized than the present copy, which shows enough oxidation to confirm the age of the color, while not approaching a point where it might compromise the paper.
The atlas includes the nicest example of the so-called Beaver Map that we have ever seen.
The Beaver Map was the first large-scale map to show English developments in North America and the first to show the American postal routes.
Moll's map was the first and one of the most important illustrations of the ongoing dispute between France and Great Britain over boundaries separating their respective American colonies. Pritchard notes that "The map was the primary exponent of the British position during the period immediately following the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713." All territory south of the St. Lawrence River and eastern Great Lakes is shown as British. Numerous notations relating to territorial claims, Indian tribes, the fur trade, and the condition of the land cover the face of the map. This map shows the early eighteenth-century postal routes in the British colonies and is frequently called the first American postal map.
The atlas also includes a number of other highly desirable maps, outlined below.
Maps:
- A New & Correct Map of the Whole World Shewing ye Situation of its Principal Parts... 1719
- A New And Correct Map of the World, Laid Down According to the Newest Discoveries, and From the Most Exact Observations, By Herman Moll.
- To Her most Sacred Majesty Ann Queen of Great Britain, France & Ireland, This Map of Europe.
- To the Right Honourable William Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. This Map of Asia
- A Map of the East-Indies and the adjacent Countries
- To the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Peterborow and Monmouth, &c. This Map of Africa
- To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham in ye County of Worcester President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council &c. This Map of North America
- A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America.
- A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoyning Territories of England and Spain.
- A Map of the West-Indies or the Islands of America in the North Sea
- To the Right Honourable, Charles Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton; One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of States; &c. This Map of South America
- A New & Exact Map of the Coast, Countries and Islands within ye Limits of ye South Sea Company
- To His Most Serene and August Majesty Peter Alexovitz Absolute Lord of Russia &c. This Map of Moscovy, Poland, Little Tartary, And ye Black Sea &c.
- A New Map of Denmark and Sweden.
- A New Map of Great Britain.
- The South Part of Great Britain, called, England and Wales.
- The North Part of Great Britain Called Scotland.
- A New Map of Ireland Divided into its Provinces, Counties and Baronies, wherein are distinguished the Bishopricks, Borroughs, Barracks, Bogs, Passes, Bridges, &c. with the Principal Roads, and the common Reputed Miles.
- To His Grace John Duke of Marleborough, Prince of Mindelheim &c. This Map of Germany &c. is most Humbly Dedicated by H. Moll Geographer.
- A New & Exact Map of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lunenburg and ye rest of ye Kings Dominions in Germany.
- Les Provinces Des Pay-Bas Catholiques ou A Most Exact Map of Flanders or ye Austrian Netherlands &c.
- A New and Exact Map of France.
- A New and Exact Map of Spain & Portugal Divided into Kingdoms and Principalities &c.
- A New Map of Italy Distinguishing All the Sovereignties in it...
- The Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa
- An Historical Map of the Roman Empire and the neighbouring Barbarous Nations
Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century. Moll was probably born in Bremen, Germany, around 1654. He moved to London to escape the Scanian Wars. His earliest work was as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas, a failed work which landed Pitt in debtor's prison. Moll also engraved for Sir Jonas Moore, Grenville Collins, John Adair, and the Seller & Price firm. He published his first original maps in the early 1680s and had set up his own shop by the 1690s.
Moll's work quickly helped him become a member of a group which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill, where speculators met to trade stock. Moll's circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these contacts, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was included in his maps.
Over the course of his career, he published dozens of geographies, atlases, and histories, not to mention numerous sheet maps. His most famous works are Atlas Geographus, a monthly magazine that ran from 1708 to 1717, and The World Described (1715-54). He also frequently made maps for books, including those of Dampier’s publications and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Moll died in 1732. It is likely that his plates passed to another contemporary, Thomas Bowles, after this death.
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