![MOLL, Herman. To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers... This Map of North America... [London]: Sold by H. Moll... in ye Strand, printed for J. Bowles... at the Black Horse in Cornhill and T. Bowles... in St. Paul's Church Yard. And by P. Overton... Fleetstreet and by John King... in the Poultry, [1720 or later].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_03750_0136_000(moll_herman_to_the_right_honourable_john_lord_sommers_this_map_of_nort095554).jpg?w=1)
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MOLL, Herman. To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers... This Map of North America... [London]: Sold by H. Moll... in ye Strand, printed for J. Bowles... at the Black Horse in Cornhill and T. Bowles... in St. Paul's Church Yard. And by P. Overton... Fleetstreet and by John King... in the Poultry, [1720 or later].
Engraved map of North America, on two joined sheets, hand-colored in outline, image 570 x 956 mm, dedication and title in elaborate cartouche upper left, with a large vignette of "A View of a Stage & also of ye manner of Fishing for Curing & Drying Cod at New Foundland," and small vignettes of "St. John's Harbour," “Boston Harbour,” "New York,” “Ashley & Cooper River," "Port Royal Harbour," "The Bay & City of ye Havana," "The Bay of Pto Bella," "La Vera Cruz," "Cartegena Harbour and Forts," and "The Port of Acapulco" lower left. (Vertical folds with faint browning.) Matted and framed (not examined out of frame.)
Moll's famous map of North America with California as an island, the so-called "Cod Fish Map," was published in response to Delisle's French map Carte de La Louisiane de du Cours du Mississipi published in 1718. The British hoped to counter Delisle's French claims to “practically all of North America to the west of the Appalachians… Herman Moll presents his counter-blast by reducing French Louisiana to south of the Ohio River and pressing English claims in Canada by labeling Labrador as ‘New Britain’” (Goss). Showing California as an island. Goss 53; Phillips Atlases 554 7; Schwartz and Ehrenberg p. 140; McLaughlin 193; Tooley Maps and Map-makers p. 113.
Engraved map of North America, on two joined sheets, hand-colored in outline, image 570 x 956 mm, dedication and title in elaborate cartouche upper left, with a large vignette of "A View of a Stage & also of ye manner of Fishing for Curing & Drying Cod at New Foundland," and small vignettes of "St. John's Harbour," “Boston Harbour,” "New York,” “Ashley & Cooper River," "Port Royal Harbour," "The Bay & City of ye Havana," "The Bay of Pto Bella," "La Vera Cruz," "Cartegena Harbour and Forts," and "The Port of Acapulco" lower left. (Vertical folds with faint browning.) Matted and framed (not examined out of frame.)
Moll's famous map of North America with California as an island, the so-called "Cod Fish Map," was published in response to Delisle's French map Carte de La Louisiane de du Cours du Mississipi published in 1718. The British hoped to counter Delisle's French claims to “practically all of North America to the west of the Appalachians… Herman Moll presents his counter-blast by reducing French Louisiana to south of the Ohio River and pressing English claims in Canada by labeling Labrador as ‘New Britain’” (Goss). Showing California as an island. Goss 53; Phillips Atlases 554 7; Schwartz and Ehrenberg p. 140; McLaughlin 193; Tooley Maps and Map-makers p. 113.