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[MAP]. MOLL, Herman (1654–1732). A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississippi, Canada and New France... [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 engraved map on two joined sheets (619 x 1035 mm) with a vignette of “The Indian Fort Sasquesahanok” with hand–coloring, and vignettes of “The Harbour of Annapolis Royal”, and “A Map of ye Mouth of Mississippi and Mobile Rivers”. (Overall browned with some staining at outer margin, several small paper repairs along edges and corners). Siebert’s first state with “ye” instead of “the” in the title, and with the inset of the Sasquesahanok Indian fort fully hand–colored.
“THE MAP PRESENTS DETAILS OF THE SOUTHEAST FOUND IN NO OTHER PRINTED MAP” (Cumming). Moll’s map is largely based on Delisle’s famous map of 1718 and shows California as an island and a vast section of the West is identified as “Parts Unknown”. A variant issue with additional names in the imprint. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps p. 23; McLaughlin, California as an Island 183; Phillips Atlas I:554; Siebert Sale 673; Streeter Sale I:119; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 105.