![MOLL, Herman (1654-1732). A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoining Territories of England and Spain... [London]: Sold by H. Moll... in the Strand... sold by Tho: Bowles... in St. Paul's Church Yard. John King... in ye Poultry... and John Bowles at the Black Horse Cornhill, 1720.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/NYR/2016_NYR_12262_0298_000(moll_herman_a_new_map_of_the_north_parts_of_america_claimed_by_france104741).jpg?w=1)
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MOLL, Herman (1654-1732). A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoining Territories of England and Spain... [London]: Sold by H. Moll... in the Strand... sold by Tho: Bowles... in St. Paul's Church Yard. John King... in ye Poultry... and John Bowles at the Black Horse Cornhill, 1720.
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MOLL, Herman (1654-1732). A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoining Territories of England and Spain... [London]: Sold by H. Moll... in the Strand... sold by Tho: Bowles... in St. Paul's Church Yard. John King... in ye Poultry... and John Bowles at the Black Horse Cornhill, 1720.
Large-scale detailed map of North America with contemporary hand color. "The map presents details of the Southeast found in no other printed map” (Cumming).
Engraved map of North America, on two joined sheets, overall image 608 x 1018 mm (628 x 1029 sheet), contemporary hand coloring in outline, vignette of "The Indian Fort Sasquesahanok" upper left, and vignettes of "The Harbour of Annapolis Royal," and "A Map of ye Mouth of Mississipi and Mobile Rivers " along the right-hand edge. (A few marginal and internal tears, with minor loss to image, reinforced along folds.) Matted and framed. Cumming p.23.
“The chief source of this information is a large, unsigned, undated manuscript map in the Public Record Office, from which Moll took much information on trading paths, Indian tribes, French, Spanish, and English forts and settlements, rivers, and other topographical data" (Cumming p.23). Phillips Atlases 554 9; McLaughlin 183; Tooley 82.
Large-scale detailed map of North America with contemporary hand color. "The map presents details of the Southeast found in no other printed map” (Cumming).
Engraved map of North America, on two joined sheets, overall image 608 x 1018 mm (628 x 1029 sheet), contemporary hand coloring in outline, vignette of "The Indian Fort Sasquesahanok" upper left, and vignettes of "The Harbour of Annapolis Royal," and "A Map of ye Mouth of Mississipi and Mobile Rivers " along the right-hand edge. (A few marginal and internal tears, with minor loss to image, reinforced along folds.) Matted and framed. Cumming p.23.
“The chief source of this information is a large, unsigned, undated manuscript map in the Public Record Office, from which Moll took much information on trading paths, Indian tribes, French, Spanish, and English forts and settlements, rivers, and other topographical data" (Cumming p.23). Phillips Atlases 554 9; McLaughlin 183; Tooley 82.