Engraved map, hand-colored in outline. With 1 vignette view and 2 inset maps. 60x101 cm. (23½x39¾"). First state with "ye" in title instead of "the".
Large map of North America partially based on a 1718 map of the same region by French cartographer Guillaume Delisle: "Carte de la Louisiane et cours du Mississippi." There are a number of significant differences between the two maps, however, particularly concerning the border between English Carolina and French Louisiana. Moll includes blocks of descriptive text. In the Midwestern regions, he describes the countryside and the Indians who lived there, and on the Florida peninsula, he gives a detailed account of a slave-hunting expedition. He depicts California as an island, although only the southern portion of the island is shown. Cumming notes that this map contains information in the southeast not found on any other printed map.
Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte
Full title: A New Map of the North Part of America claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississsipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoyning territories of England and Spain. A Great part of this Map is taken from ye Original Draughts of Mr. Blackmore, the Ingenious Mr. Berisford now residing in Carolina, Capt. Nairn and others never before Published, the South West Part of Louisiana is none after a French Map Published at Paris in 1718. --- The Projection of this map is call'd Mercator's. And it is laid down to the Newest and Most Exact Observations by H. Moll Geographer 1720. | [inset 1:] The Harbour of Annapolis Royal | [inset 2:] A Map of ye Mouth of Mississipi and Mobil Rivers, &c. | To Thomas Bromsall Esq; This map of Lousiana, Mississipi &c. is most Humbly Dedicated By H. Moll Geographer. | Advertisement [ re color coding ] | Explanation [ and diagram for determining distances ] | Explanation of an Expedition in Florida Neck --- by Capt. Nairn---. | [View:] The Indian Fort Sasquesahanok.
Provenance: London, '67
Bloomsbury, NY, Cat 3/5/08, has this map in an earlier state with advertisement on printed slip pasted on in place where it was subsequently engraved.
References: Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, pp 43, 44, and footnote 156, p 81. Strangely, Cumming does not include this map in his list. Reinhartz, "Herman Moll, Geographer ---" in The Mapping of the Ameican Southwest, pp 18-36 ( Rep ); McLaughlin 197.