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MOLL, Herman. The World described; or a New and Correct Sett of Maps. London: Thomas Bowles, [1709-20].
Tall 2° (645 x 300mm). Letterpress title including index and advertisements pasted down on front endpaper, 13 hand-coloured engraved maps only (of 30), all double-page and folding, including 12 on two sheets joined along centre-fold. (Map of the world cleanly torn along fold, two detached, marginal tears to the map of the Baltic, worm hole and tears affecting final two maps of France and the Low Countries.) Contemporary calf (worn).
The maps include the World map on the mercator projection, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and the West Indies.
Tall 2° (645 x 300mm). Letterpress title including index and advertisements pasted down on front endpaper, 13 hand-coloured engraved maps only (of 30), all double-page and folding, including 12 on two sheets joined along centre-fold. (Map of the world cleanly torn along fold, two detached, marginal tears to the map of the Baltic, worm hole and tears affecting final two maps of France and the Low Countries.) Contemporary calf (worn).
The maps include the World map on the mercator projection, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and the West Indies.