This Map of North America. (insets) Ten American harbors. Scene of fishing and fish curing in Newfoundland.
Known as the "Codfish" map because of the scenes of fishing and fish processing. This is Moll's most impressive atlas, although it is largely just a collection of maps with a paste down title on the inside front cover. The maps are filled with Moll's observations, opinions, and k...
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John and Tho. Bowles
1719
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| Summary: | Known as the "Codfish" map because of the scenes of fishing and fish processing. This is Moll's most impressive atlas, although it is largely just a collection of maps with a paste down title on the inside front cover. The maps are filled with Moll's observations, opinions, and knowledge and these annotations make the maps special and very personal, compared to other maps of the same period. The "beaver" map in this copy is state 6 and dates the overall atlas at 1732. Moll first issued the atlas ca. 1715-17 and it had a republishing history of over 30 years. Moll was born in Germany and came to London around 1680. He published a large group of geographic books, atlases, and maps. At the bottom of the paste down listing of the atlas contents, Moll states "These maps are the most correct, entertaining, and historical of any yet made." Outline color. Relief in sketches. P554, P3469; Cumming 158; The Map Collector No. 29; NMM Moll 398; Stevens 8; Reinhartz, "The Cartographer and the Literati: Herman Moll and His Intellectual Circle." Tooley 82; McLaughlin 192; Stevens 7. |
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