"America", Moll, Herman
Subject: Western Hemisphere - America
Period: 1700 (circa)
Publication: The Compleat Geographer
Color: Black & White
Size:
7.6 x 6.8 inches
19.3 x 17.3 cm
This uncommon map shows California as an island on the Briggs model with no place names given. To the northwest, the wildly stretched coast of Jesso nearly touches California. Hudson Bay opens up to give an early hint of the Great Lakes. Santa Fe is named in New Mexico. Western Canada is labeled New North Wales. A huge and ill-defined coastline in the lower left is an early representation of New Zealand. On a sheet of English text measuring 8.0 x 12.5".
References: McLaughlin #173.
Condition: B+
On a lightly toned sheet that has been backed with archival tissue. There is damp staining and soiling along the top and right edges, with a stain entering the map image at right. A couple worm holes in the map at bottom right have been closed with the archival tissue backing.
