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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. 

Place/Date:
Edinburgh / 1767
Size:
10 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
98156
Place/Date:
London / 1732 circa
Size:
11 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
94055
Place/Date:
London / 1732
Size:
8 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
94597
Place/Date:
London / 1730 circa
Size:
10 x 7.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
40213se
Place/Date:
London / 1730 circa
Size:
24 x 20 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
79933
Place/Date:
London / 1730 circa
Size:
39 x 23.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
102645
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
10.5 x 7.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
81592
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
10 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
81579
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
8 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
93311
Place/Date:
London / 1729 circa
Size:
8 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
93954
Place/Date:
London / 1729 circa
Size:
10.5 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
94017
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
10 x 7.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
94309
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
10 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
94312
Place/Date:
London / 1729 circa
Size:
10.5 x 7.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
94763
Place/Date:
London / 1729 circa
Size:
10.5 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
94828
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
8 x 10 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
94883
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
8 x 10.25 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
95412
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
10.5 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
96363
Place/Date:
London / 1729
Size:
8 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
96474

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Place/Date:
Edinburgh / 1767
Size:
10 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
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22406
Place/Date:
Edinburgh / 1767
Size:
10 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
81584
Place/Date:
London / 1745
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
40909
Place/Date:
London / 1745
Size:
14 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
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40789
Place/Date:
London / 1745 circa
Size:
16.5 x 11.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
39489
Place/Date:
London / 1744
Size:
16.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG
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1899
Place/Date:
London / 1744
Size:
10 x 7 inches
Condition:
VG+
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19276
Place/Date:
London / 1744
Size:
10 x 7 inches
Condition:
VG+
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19499
Place/Date:
London / 1741
Size:
10 x 7 inches
Condition:
VG+
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7972
Place/Date:
London / 1741
Size:
10 x 7 inches
Condition:
VG+
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47329
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
10 x 7.5 inches
Condition:
VG
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13255
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
11 x 7 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
13256
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
10 x 7.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
13257
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
14.5 x 11.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
m0311
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
14.5 x 11.5 inches
Condition:
VG-
Stock#:
39839
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
14.5 x 11.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46928
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
10 x 7 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
68999
Place/Date:
London / 1740
Size:
14.5 x 11.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
93862
Place/Date:
London / 1739 circa
Size:
11 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
76926
Place/Date:
London / 1736
Size:
11 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
m0309
Place/Date:
London / 1736
Size:
11 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
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42442
Place/Date:
London / 1732
Size:
10 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
1425