Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Moll, Herman, -1732.
2. Bancroft Collection

Description

1. 1 map : hand colored; 42 x 48 cm

Alternative title

1. South Sea Company, from ye river Aranoca to Terra del Fuego
2. Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). NA002.1.05

Subject

1. South America > Maps > Early works to 1800
2. Early maps
3. Pacific Coast (South America) > Maps > Early works to 1800
4. Maps
5. South America > Pacific Coast
6. Early works
7. South Sea Company Maps > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

1. Early works.
2. Maps.
3. Early maps.

Call number

1. Map Div. 15-5012

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Prime meridian: London.
3. Insets: A chart from England to the river Aranoca &c. -- Peypses or Pepys I. -- A map of ye Straits of Magellan &c. -- A map of the isthmus of Darien, the bay of Panama &c. -- The island of Juan Ferdinando -- The Gallapagos Islands -- The gulf of Nicoya or gulf of Salinas -- The gulf of Amapalla or Fonesca -- The port of Acapulco.
4. Ancillary maps mounted at top of map: A map of the isle Chiloe, the lake of Ancuna, with the islands &c. -- The bay of Guiaquil &c. -- A map of ye port of Baldivia with the fortifications and islands &c.
5. Main map, or variant, without ancillary maps, appears in Moll's A view of the coasts, countries and islands within the limits of the South-Sea-company, 1711.
6. Map, or variant, with ancillary maps, appears in Moll's The world described, [1709-1720].

Indexed in (note)

1. List of maps of America in the Library of Congress
2. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress
3. Wagner, H.R. Cartography of the northwest coast of America to the year 1800
4. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, $c v. 6, page 580, column a, row 4

Author

1. Moll, Herman, -1732, creator, issuing body.

Title

1. A new & exact map of the coast, countries and islands within ye limits of ye South Sea Company [cartographic material] : from ye river Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence through ye South Sea, to ye north part of California &c. with a view of the general and coasting trade-winds and perticular draughts of the most important bays, ports &c. : according to ye newest observations / by Herman Moll, geographer.

Imprint

1. [London] : Sold by Herman Moll, [1711?]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:32,000,000] (W 150°--W 10°/N 40°--S 60°).

Type of content

1. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Indexed in:

1. List of maps of America in the Library of Congress, pages 796, 797
2. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, entry 554
3. Wagner, H.R. Cartography of the northwest coast of America to the year 1800, entry 498
4. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, $c v. 6, page 580, column a, row 4

Local note

1. NYPL Map Div. copy: ancillary maps mounted at top in reverse order from Library of Congress copy; also library copy lacks "sold by" statement that appears along top of center ancillary map on LC copy. Pencilled on mounting cloth on verso of library copy: From Moll's Atlas [1711?] *KC 1711?

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. State Library of New South Wales variant copy image
3. Library of Congress variant copy image

Place name

1. South America.
2. South America Pacific Coast.

Place of publication

1. Great Britain England London.

Added author

1. Moll, Herman, -1732. View of the coasts, countries and islands within the limits of the South-Sea-company.
2. Moll, Herman, -1732. World described, or, a new and correct sett of maps.
3. Bancroft Collection.

LCCN

1. gm 71005443

Research call number

1. Map Div. 15-5012 [Filed with North and South America [1720] as originally cataloged in NYPL Dictionary catalog of the Map Division]