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  1. Title: A new map of Denmark and Sweden, ca. 1730 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new map of Denmark and Sweden : according to ye newest and most exact observations. It was published by: Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court without Temple Bar in the Strand, Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, Thomas Bowles Print & Mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church yard and by Philip Overton Map & Printseller near S. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet ca. 1730. Scale [ca. 1:2,700,000].. Map in English. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  2. Title: To the Honourable Walter Dowglass, Esq., constituted captain general and chief-governor of all ye Leeward Islands in America by her late Majesty Queen Anne in ye year 1711 : this map is most humbly dedicated by your most humble servant, Herman Moll, Geogr.

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    Summary: "Copied from an original map of the principal part of North America, in the library of Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., of New York, for Mayor Courtenay of Charleston, S.C. Cadastral map includes "Berkley County" and "Colletons County", plus inset: A draught of town and harbour of Charles-Town. Numerous landowners indicated. 29 x 44 centimeters Scale indeterminate. General Map Collection

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  3. Title: A map of the continent of the East-Indies etc : containing the territories, settlements and factories of the Europeans, explaining what belongs to England, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal, etc.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:18,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. On verso: 38. 20 x 42 centimeters Scale approximately 1:18,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  4. Title: Germany : divided into circles, agreeable to modern history

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Includes geographical notes. "Lorrain was ceded to France A.D. 1736 ..." Numbered 13. From: Atlas minor ... / by Herman Moll. London : Thomas Bowles and John Bowles, [1736].

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  5. Title: India Proper : or the Empire of the Great Mogul agreeable to Modern History

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:14,000,000]. Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued. Numbered 36. Shows boundaries, rivers, roads and settlements. London meridian. Relief shown pictorially. 26 x 20 centimeters Scale [1:14,000,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  6. Title: Denmark : agreeable to modern history

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    Summary: Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued.; Numbered 7.; Notes about the countries.; Shows boundaries, rivers, roads, forests and settlements.; Relief shown pictorially.; London meridian. 20 x 27 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,500,000 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Virginia and Maryland, circa 1732

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    Summary: A map of Virginia and Maryland created by geographer H. Moll, circa 1732. 24 x 37 cm; 1 images; color

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  8. Title: A new and exact map of the dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina; by Herman Moll.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Imprint date from Henry Stevens and Roland Tree's Comparative cartography, item 55c. Includes descriptive text. Insets: A view of ye industry of ye beavers of Canada ... the cataract of Niagara ... -- A draught of ye town and harbour of Charles-town -- A map of the principal part of North America -- A map of the improved part of Carolina with the settlements &c -- South part of Carolina and the east part of Florida ... 1 map: hand col.; 100 x 60 cm

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  9. Title: A new map of the upper part of Italy containing ye Principality of Piemont, ye Dutchies of Savoy, Milan, Parma, Mantua, Modena, Tuscany, the Dominions of ye Pope &c. the Republiques of Venice, Genoa, Lucca &c.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Inset: Locater map, Italy with the adjacent dominions about it &c. Inset views of fortified cities: Civita Vecchia, Venice, Mantua, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Placenza, Parma, Modena, Florenza and Rome. Harbor view: A prospect of the town and harbour of Leghorn ... Note: All the roads in this map are post roads. The figures in the road from Lyons to Turin are French leagues. All the other figures in the roads are computed distances in travelling from one city or place to another are Italian or English miles.

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  10. Title: A new map of Denmark and Sweden : according to ye newest and most exact observations.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 (W 0°04ʹ00ʺ--E 35°07ʹ00ʺ/N 71°21ʹ00ʺ--N 53°41ʹ00ʺ). Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: London and Ferro Island. Dedication: To His Excellency John Lord Bishop of Bristol Ld. Privy Seal and Her Majesty's first Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Utrecht. This map is Humbly Dedicated by your Excellency's most humble Servant. H: Moll Geographer. Inset (upper left): The north part of Norway, Lapland and Greenland ... This Draught taken from J. Peterson ... Five b&w vignettes pertaining to Laplanders on right side, with caption below: The Laplanders being the most remarkable people in Europe; it will not be amiss to give a scheach of their manner of living ... Note (to upper left of title cartouche): The double line from Upsal to Torne shews ye rout King Charles ye XI, and his mathematicians took Anno 1694 in making their observations, which are carefully inserted here with many other remarks left to ye curious to observe. 1 map : color ; 60 x 100 centimeter on sheet 63 x 107 centimeter Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: A new map of Italy distinguishing all the sovereignties in it, whether states, kingdoms, dutchies, principalities, republicks &c. With the post roads, and many remarks not extant in any map. According to ye newest and most exact observations

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Insets: Caesium -- Mont Vesuvius -- Mount Aetna or Mongibello in Siciliy. "Note: the post roads in this map are taken from Iacobo Cantelli da Vignola the Duke of Modena's geographer." Dedication: Serenissimo Francisco Eugenio, Sabaudiæ et Pedemontiæ Principi ... H. Mollius geographus. From: The world described, or, a new and correct sett of maps / Herman Moll. London : H. Moll, [ca. 1730]. "The imprints on the maps by Moll include the names of Thomas Bowles, his son John, Philip Overton, and John King. Their respective addresses suggest a date ... of c.1730."--Shirley, R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library.

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  12. Title: A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limits of ye South Sea Company : from ye River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego and from thence through ye South Sea, to ye north part of California &c.

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    Summary: This map first appeared in 1711. The three large inset maps were printed on a separate sheet and attached to the top.; Scales of inset maps vary.; Prime meridian: London.; Relief shown pictorially.; Shows prevailing wind directions, towns and villages, rivers, etc.; Includes numerous notes and statement "Sold by Herman Moll." 42 x 48 centimeters on sheet 70 x 53 centimeters Scale approximately 1:29,000,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: A new map of the Baltick &c. : shewing all the dominions about it with ye great or post roads and principal cross-roads

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    Summary: Inset (separate scale): A chart of the sound or passes into the Baltick Seas according to a draught lately taken.; Relief shown pictorially.; Prime Meridian: London. 52 x 62 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,900,000 General Map Collection

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  14. Title: A map of the East-Indies and the adjacent countries : with the settlements, factories and territories, explaning [sic] what belongs to England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal & c with many remarks not extant in any other map

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; Shows: Indian Ocean, Great South Sea, Bay of Bengal, Bay of Siam, Equinoctial Line.; Includes: Mindanao, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, Formosa, China, India, Siam, and part of Persia; islands of Borneo, New Guinea, and Philippines.; Prime meridian: London.; Notes describe islands, towns, and various points on the map.; Hand-coloured.; North oriented toward upper left.; Seal above title block: "Auspicio Regis et Senatus Anglia." 61 x 99 centimeters Scale [1:10,000,000] General Map Collection

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  15. Title: This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated by your Lordship's most humble servant Herman Moll, geographer.

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    Summary: To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers...; London.;Relief shown pictorially.;1 map, hand colored;57 x 94 cm.;ca. 1:12,000,000;J. Bowles, 1709-1720]. Plate 7.

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  16. Title: A new map of Ireland divided into its provinces, counties and baronies, wherein are distinguished the bishopricks, borroughs, barracks, bogs, passes, bridges &c. with the principal roads, and the common reputed miles

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    Summary: "NB. This map has all the improvements of Hen. Pratt viz. the roads, computed miles from town to town &c." Dedication: To His Grace Charles Duke of Shrewsbury, Ld. High Treasurer of Great Britain, Ld. Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold, Ld. Leutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, Knight of ye Most Noble Order of the Garter &c. this map is humbly dedicated by your Grace's most humble Servant H. Moll Geographer 1714. Relief shown pictorially. Table: A catalogue of ye towns & places, where barracks are erected, for quartering ye standing army ... Inset (Separate scale): Untitled locator map, showing western Europe. Explanation: cityes & large towns, boroughs, market towns, villages and gentle. seats, archbishopricks, bishopricks, barracks, redoubts or small barrac., roads, ferryes, bogs, forts. City plans: Dublin, Corke, Limrick, the Harbour of Kinsale, Waterford, Gallway, the Isle of St. Patricks Purgatory in the county of Dunnagall and Gyants Cawsway in the county of Antrium, the last two with text. Date of publication from Tooley. "Herman Moll's A New Map of Ireland ..., c.1720 edition (with 'improvments' by Henry Pratt)"--cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, vol. 3, p. 457.

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  17. Title: A map of America: according to ye newest and most exact observations; by Herman Moll, geographer.

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    Summary: Vol. III outside upper left margin; "p. 155" outside upper right margin. The state of California is depicted as an island. From Moll's "Forty-two new maps of Asia, Africa, and America" published 1716. 1 map; 27 x 19 cm.

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  18. Title: To the right honourable William, Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, this map of Asia : according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated

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    Summary: Map of the Middle East and Asia including the East Indies. It features characteristic misconceptions of early 18th century cartography such as New Guinea as a peninsula of the southern continent and Iapon or Niphon [i.e. Japan] having a huge northern island called Land of Iesso [presumably the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin]. Relief is shown pictorially.; Cartouche title.; Title cartouche also contains a dedication to Lord Cowper, High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1714-1718.; Imprint on map: Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court without Temple Bar; Ino. [i.e. Tho.] Bowles, Print and Mapseller at the Black Horse in Cornhill; and Tho. Bowles, Print and Mapseller next to the Chapter House in St. Paul's Church yard; by Philip Overton, Map and Printseller near St. Dunstans Church, Fleetstreet; and by John King at ye. Globe in ye. Poultry.; Block of text at far right lower side of map indicating that two Jesuit explorers, Paul Clain and Le Gibien, had reported 87 islands found east or south-east of the Philippines but this was not yet confirmed by other explorers.; Prime meridian: Ferro.; Map 3 from: [Untitled atlas] / Herman Moll. London : [H. Moll, T. Bowles, P. Overton?, approximately 1715]. 55.6 x 94 centimeters Scale approximately 1:19,000,000 General Map Collection

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  19. Title: To the right honourable William, Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, this map of Asia : according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated

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    Summary: Map of the Middle East and Asia including the East Indies. It features characteristic misconceptions of early 18th century cartography such as New Guinea as a peninsula of the southern continent and Iapon or Niphon [i.e. Japan] having a huge northern island called Land of Iesso [presumably the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin]. Relief is shown pictorially. Cartouche title. Title cartouche also contains a dedication to Lord Cowper, High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1714-1718. Imprint on map: Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court without Temple Bar; Ino. [i.e. Tho.] Bowles, Print and Mapseller at the Black Horse in Cornhill; and Tho. Bowles, Print and Mapseller next to the Chapter House in St. Paul's Church yard; by Philip Overton, Map and Printseller near St. Dunstans Church, Fleetstreet; and by John King at ye. Globe in ye. Poultry. Block of text at far right lower side of map indicating that two Jesuit explorers, Paul Clain and Le Gibien, had reported 87 islands found east or south-east of the Philippines but this was not yet confirmed by other explorers. Prime meridian: Ferro. Map 3 from: [Untitled atlas] / Herman Moll. London : [H. Moll, T. Bowles, P. Overton?, approximately 1715]. Insets on left: Hellespont, or ye Straits of Constantinople / by Capt. Bamburg. Scale not given -- Gulf of Smirna. Scale [ca. 1:793,000] -- Bombay and Sallset Isl. Scale [ca. 1:676,000] -- Hugley R. from Buffalow Point to Hugly Towne. Scale [ca. 1:226,000]. Insets on right: The Ice Sea. Scale not given -- Part of Chusan [Island]. Scale [ca. 1:450,000] -- [Amoy Island]. Scale [1:676,000]. 55.6 x 94 centimeters Scale approximately 1:19,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  20. Title: A new and exact map of Spain & Portugal divided into its kingdoms and principalities &c with ye principal roads and considerable improvements

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Dedication: To His Grace John Duke of Argile &c. General of Her Majesty's Forces in Spain. This map is most Humbly Dedicated by Herman Moll Geographer. Advertisement: Among all ye cheats that ye world are dayly abus'd with, none have lately been more scandalous than that of maps, some times new ones are put out by ignorant pretenders, some times mean & imperfect forreign maps are copy'd and publish'd by them as their own, and having no judgement or knowledge of what is good or bad, correct or incorrect, they basely impose on the publick with pompous titles, & pretend they are countenanc'd & assisted by those who either never saw, or despise their wretched performances ... Map shows "Places where battles &c. have been fought by the English mentioned in history." Historic Maps copy has ms. annotations.

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