"A Map of the North Pole with all the Territories that Lye Near it...", Moll, Herman

This unusual map depicts the North Pole and shows incomplete northern coastlines for North America and Greenland. Novaya Zemlya is correctly shown as an island facilitating a Northeast Passage to Asia. Above the Pole is Parts Unknown, and three compass roses complete the composition. This is the fourth state of the map, which includes a publisher's imprint, two panels of text flanking the map, and Vol. 1 p. 714 added outside the neatline, at top left. Published in London in Thomas Salmon's Modern History: or the Present State of All Nations.

References: Kershaw #410; Shirley (BL Atlases Vol 2) G.SALM-1c #19.

Condition: A

A dark impression on a clean sheet with light toning along sheet edges.