![MOLL, Herman (?1654-1732). [The World Described; or a new and correct sett of maps. London: J. & T. Bowles, c.1726.]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CKS/2011_CKS_08021_0081_001(moll_herman_the_world_described_or_a_new_and_correct_sett_of_maps_lond063220).jpg?w=1)
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MOLL, Herman (?1654-1732). [The World Described; or a new and correct sett of maps. London: J. & T. Bowles, c.1726.]
Tall narrow folio (635 x 297mm). Ink manuscript index to front pastedown, no printed text. 27 engraved double-page folding maps, each on two sheets joined, all with contemporary hand-colouring in outline, mounted on guards, two near-contemporary engraved maps of Spain and Gibraltar pasted to rear pastedown. (Light browning and soiling throughout, two maps with their left-hand portion detached, and a third almost detached, some tears to vertical crease folds with five maps severely affected, tiny worming affecting maps 22-27.) Contemporary sheep, covers panelled in blind, spine lettered in gilt (worn).
EARLY ISSUE OF MOLL'S MOST IMPORTANT ATLAS, CONTAINING TWO WORLD MAPS AND SIX MAPS OF THE AMERICAS. All the maps conform to Stevens's Catalogue 'B' or 'C', issues (c)-(d), i.e. 1720-1726, excepting the 'Map of North America' which is Stevens's Catalogue 'D', issue (e*), and to which he attributes the date of 1728. However, this may be erroneous as Stevens notes this was an 'Unattached Map', and may not be part of Catalogue 'D' at all (which lists 20 maps only). In all other respects, the present atlas conforms to the 27 maps listed in Catalogues 'B' and 'C', excepting 'A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France' and 'A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America' which have been swapped in the binding order. This latter map, also known as the 'Beaver' map on account of its attractive vignette showing the wildlife around Niagra Falls, is one of the most important maps of North America delineating Anglo-French boundary claims. NMM 397; Phillips 554; Henry Stevens and Henry Robert Peter Stevens, The World Described in thirty large two-sheet maps by Herman Moll Geographer (1952).
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Tall narrow folio (635 x 297mm). Ink manuscript index to front pastedown, no printed text. 27 engraved double-page folding maps, each on two sheets joined, all with contemporary hand-colouring in outline, mounted on guards, two near-contemporary engraved maps of Spain and Gibraltar pasted to rear pastedown. (Light browning and soiling throughout, two maps with their left-hand portion detached, and a third almost detached, some tears to vertical crease folds with five maps severely affected, tiny worming affecting maps 22-27.) Contemporary sheep, covers panelled in blind, spine lettered in gilt (worn).
EARLY ISSUE OF MOLL'S MOST IMPORTANT ATLAS, CONTAINING TWO WORLD MAPS AND SIX MAPS OF THE AMERICAS. All the maps conform to Stevens's Catalogue 'B' or 'C', issues (c)-(d), i.e. 1720-1726, excepting the 'Map of North America' which is Stevens's Catalogue 'D', issue (e*), and to which he attributes the date of 1728. However, this may be erroneous as Stevens notes this was an 'Unattached Map', and may not be part of Catalogue 'D' at all (which lists 20 maps only). In all other respects, the present atlas conforms to the 27 maps listed in Catalogues 'B' and 'C', excepting 'A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France' and 'A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America' which have been swapped in the binding order. This latter map, also known as the 'Beaver' map on account of its attractive vignette showing the wildlife around Niagra Falls, is one of the most important maps of North America delineating Anglo-French boundary claims. NMM 397; Phillips 554; Henry Stevens and Henry Robert Peter Stevens, The World Described in thirty large two-sheet maps by Herman Moll Geographer (1952).
For a more detailed condition report see www.christies.com.
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