ANTIQUE MAPS of THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
BY HERMAN MOLL
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THE COMPLEAT GEOGRAPHER
OR THE CHOROGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY
OF ALL THE KNOWN PARTS OF THE EARTH
(FOURTH EDITION) MAPS BY HERMAN MOLL
LONDON - 1723
Some Background Information About the Maps and the Cartographer Herman Moll
At the time that this work was produced research was extremely extensive, as can be seen from the following quote from the title page:
"Containing
A True and Perfect Account of
I) The Situation, Bounds and Extent, Climate, Soil, Productions, History, Trade, Manufactures: The Religion, Manners and Customs of the People; with the Revolutions, Conquests, and other changes
Of all the Countries on the Earth.
II) The Several Provinces that every Kingdom or State is Divided into.
III) The Principal Cities and most Considerable Towns of the World, the Magnitude, Principal Buildings, Antiquity, Present State, Trade, History, &c. As also the Situation, with the Distance and Bearing from other Towns: Together with all necessary Pieces of Natural History."
The fourth edition (from which these maps are taken) was revised in order to include a more detailed analysis of Asia, Africa and America. It is interesting that a certain amount of self-satisfaction was expressed at the accuracy of this publication, yet inaccuracies still occurred, for example: California was shown as an island and Australia (New Holland) was also mis-shaped.
These interesting inaccuracies were due to imprecise information and was common in maps of this period.
HERMAN MOLL (fl.1678-1732) A Dutchman, was a bookseller, geographer and engraver. He moved to London, England in c.1678, where he worked for a while as an engraver. Later he started his own business as a map publisher. He became the foremost in his field at the beginning of the 16th century, producing loose maps and atlases, including miniatures and large, highly decorative maps.
His work commanded a distinguished renown and was reproduced by many other publishers and Moll himself was greatly aware of this fact.
Herman Moll was adamant that California was an island, claiming that he knew of sailors who had actually sailed around it. This was a 'new' idea after all and the concept that the older maps showing California as a peninsula were indeed correct was hard for him to accept.
The maps in this work were engraved on copper. They are attractive to look at and are delicately executed.
THIS IS A LIST OF THE MAPS
Click the underlined text to view the scanned images.
AFRICA
CONTINENT: 'Africa'. [On
the reverse maps of 'Barbary and Bildulgerid' + 'A map of Zarra
Negroe land Guinea Etc - which has Cape Verde Islands inset]
ARABIA/Middle
East: Although bearing the
title of 'Turkey in Asia - the central portion of the map is the
Arabian Peninsula. The map extends from Constantinople to Cyprus.
Red Sea and Persian Gulf. There is a small amount of text
show-through.
ARGENTINA/River
Plate: 'The Great Province
of Rio de la Plata'. Includes Uruguay. Paraguay. South Brazil
Etc.
ASIA
CONTINENT
BELGIUM
GENERAL MAP: 'Flanders of
the Spanish Netherlands. Compass Rose.
BRAZIL
GENERAL MAP: 'Brazil
divided into its Captainships'. Compass rose. Scale. Some text
show through.
CELESTIAL
ARTIFICIAL SPHERE
CELESTIAL
COMPASS ROSE
CHILE/Cape
Horn: 'Chili
Magellans-Land and Terra del Fuego Etc'. Boxed Title. Peypes
Islands inset. Map extends from Argentina southwards to Tierra
del Fuego.
CHINA
GENERAL MAP: 'China'. Map
includes Formosa (Taiwan) and part of Japan.
DENMARK
GENERAL MAP: Map of
Iceland inset.
EAST
INDIES GENERAL MAP: 'The
Principal Islands of the East Indies'. The map includes
Malaysia/Singapore. Sumatra. Java. Borneo. Philippines. Mullucas.
Etc. Showing just the north tip of New Holland (Australia).
England/Wales
GENERAL MAP: Small
cartouche around the title - 'The Kingdom of England'.
EUROPE
CONTINENT
FRANCE
GENERAL MAP
FRANCE
STRASBOURG: Plan.
GERMANY
GENERAL MAP
GREECE/Turkey
in Europe: 'Turky in
Europe'. The map extends from Crete through modern Greece
northwards as far as Hungary. Includes Black Sea coast. Crimea.
Bulgaria. Rumania. Servia Etc.
HOLLAND
7 United Provinces: The
map has a small decorative cartouche.
INDIA
GENERAL MAP: 'India or the
Mogul's Empire. The map extends from Cabul to Ceylon eastwards to
Thibet and Indo China.
IRELAND
Eire GENERAL MAP
ISRAEL
GENERAL MAP: 'Canaan
Palestine or the Holy Land Etc divided into the twelve tribes of
Israel'.
ITALY
GENERAL MAP: Includes
Sicily. Malta. Corsica. Sardinia.
ITALY
Piedmont/Savoy: From the
Lake of Geneva southwards to Nice and Mediterranean. 'Savoy and
Piedmont'.
JAPAN/Tartary: 2 panels. 'Great Tartary and the Isle of
Japan'. A smaller map appears above 'A tract of the journey which
Father Verbiet made from Pekin…1682'.
PERSIA
GENERAL MAP: 'Persia'.
Includes the Persian Gulf northwards to the Caspian Sea.
PERU/Amazon: Gallapogos inset. 'Peru and the
Amazones'. The West Coast of South America. Amazon river to it's
mouth. Includes parts of Brazil etc.
POLAND
GENERAL MAP: Extends from
Moldavia and northern Hungary to the Baltic.
RUSSIA
MOSCOVIA: 'Moscovia or
Russia divided into its general parts Etc'.
SCANDINAVIA
GENERAL MAP: Includes
Finland and the Baltic States.
SCANDINAVIA/Faroes
Etc: Includes Finland.
Parts of Iceland and British Isles. 'Scandinavia or the Kingdoms
of Denmark Sueden Norway and Lapland'.
SOUTH
AFRICA GENERAL MAP: 'Congo
Angola Cafres Monemugi Monomotapa Zanguebar and Madagascare'. The
map extends from Central Africa - Congo to Mobasa to the Cape of
Good Hope. [On the reverse are maps of 'Egypt and Barca Etc'.
Malta Inset + [Abyssinia and Nubia Etc.]
SPAIN
PENINSULA
SWISS
GENERAL MAP
TURKEY/Asia
Minor: 'Asia Minor with
Armenia Assyria Chaldaea Mesopotamia and Georgia'. Modern Turkey.
Cyprus. Northwards to The Black Sea. Eastwards to Baghdad.
USA
AMERICAS: California an
island. 'America'. North and South America. California appears as
a separate off shore island.
USA
California as an Island:
'The Isle of California New Mexico Louisiane. The River
Mississippi and the Lakes of Canada'.
USA East
Seaboard: 'The English
Empire in America Newfoundland Canada. Hudsons Bay Etc in plano'.
The map runs from Labrador to Florida and the Bahamas. Includes
Bermuda. Compass Rose.
USA
South/Mexico: 'Mexico or
New Spain divided into the Audience of Guadalayara Mexico
Guatimala. Florida'. It extends from California partly shown as
an island to Panama. Eastwards across Bay of Mexico to Florida
and Bahamas.
WEST
INDIES/Venezuela Etc:
'Terra Firma and the Caribbe Islands Etc'. The map includes the
Caribbean islands from Cuba to Trinidad with the Northern coast
of South America from Darien to Mouth of the Amazon.
WORLD
TROPICS: Interesting
treatment of Australia which virtually extends into New Guinea.
WORLD
TWIN-HEMI: 'The World in
Planisphere'. California is shown as an island. Australia
incomplete. Arctic Projection above the main hemispheres.
OTHER POSTAPRINT FEATURE PAGES CONTAINING INFORMATION ABOUT 18th CENTURY CARTOGRAPHY
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