"Chili Magellans-Land, and Terra del Fuego &c.", Moll, Herman
Subject: Southern South America
Period: 1701 (circa)
Publication: A System of Geography...
Color: Hand Color
Size:
7.3 x 6.4 inches
18.5 x 16.3 cm
This detailed copper engraved map shows the southern tip of South America with Tierra del Fuego, Le Maire Strait, and a partial outline of the Falkland Islands (Sybold de Waerds I.). It includes an inset of the fictitious Peypses Islands and a numbered table of locations along the Strait of Magellan. Decorated with a simple block style title cartouche. On a full sheet of English text measuring 7.9 x 12.4".
References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.MOLL-1b #41.
Condition: A
A crisp impression on a sheet with a "W" watermark and faint dampstaining that just enters the map image at bottom left.
