Map of Mexico or New Spain[,] Florida now called Louisiana[,] and Part of California &c., A

Subject

Southern United States, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Central America, Cuba. Delineates location of many Indian tribes.

Date

[1709]

Mapmaker

Moll, H[erman]

Publisher

[Churchill, A[wnsham] & J[ohn]]

Place of Publication

London

Accession Number

1997.078.005

Alternate number

Lupin Collection

Condition

Poor-fair. Badly foxed, much browning, acidified. I" tear, upper center fold.

Curatorial Notes

Pencil mark in bottom margin, dates this map "1716." Donor noted this was "probably from 'Atlas Minor,' 1729." Moll was a propagandist for British territorial claims in North America. Moll had a distincltive cartographic style. He combined blunt clarity of lettering and considerable detail without flourishes or extraneous design.

Market Value

1999 Apr: Murray Hudson Antiquarian Books and Maps, item #19996, $450.00

Notes

From "Atlas Manuale: or, a new sett of maps of all the parts of the earth, as well Asia, Africa and America, as Europe."

Size

7 x 10

Storage

c06d06