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Title: This Map of South America, According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations is most humbly Dedicated by Your Lordship's most humble servant, Herman Moll Geographer
Creator: Moll, Herman, -1732, cartographer
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver
Contributor: Moll, Herman, -1732
Bowles, John, 1701-1779
Bowles, Thomas, d. 1767
Overton, Philip, d. 1751
Lens, B
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1715
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: View of Potosi, rant by Moll against French mapmakers. See 093:629 for another copy. Cartouche: Volcano's exploding, natives, coat of arms. Vignette: Potosi, with description of mining operations. Moll's tirade against DeLisle's map.. "To the Right Honorouble Charles, Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; &ca." "B. Lens delim G. Vertue Sculp." Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 862.
Extent: 1 map ; outline col.ed ; 58 x 97 cm., sheet 60 x 99 cm.
Identifier: 105:862 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/1405
Language: English
Time Period: ca. 1720
Place: South America
Bolivia
Potosí
View
W 120°
E 10°/N 12°
S 60°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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