Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bowles, Thomas, -1767
2. Bowles, John, 1701-1779
3. Moll, Herman, -1732.
4. Ford Collection.

Description

1. 1 map : hand colored; 20 x 28 cm, on sheet 24 x 32 cm

Alternative title

1. Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US052.1.03

Subject

1. Southern States
2. Louisiana
3. Florida
4. Southern States > History > Maps > Early works to 1800
5. History
6. Maps
7. Louisiana > History > Maps > Early works to 1800
8. United States > Gulf Coast
9. Early works
10. Florida > History > Maps > Early works to 1800
11. Gulf Coast (U.S.) > Maps > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

1. Early works.
2. History.
3. Maps.

Call number

1. Map Div. 15-5685

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Prime meridians: west from London.
3. Historical map of the southern states from Texas in the west to Florida and the Carolinas in the east, extending as far north as the Missouri River. Also shows parts of Mexico and the very top of Cuba. Map includes many early roads and Indian villages in Texas, early French forts along the Mississippi Valley and interesting annotations including the boundary statement, "Limit of King Charles II granted to the present proprietors of Carolina in 1663."
4. Plate number at upper right corner: 54.
5. Map appears to be either the 3rd or 4th state from Moll's Atlas Minor. The placename Georgia has been added to the map.
6. Appears in: Atlas minor, or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. London : printed for Tho. Bowles and John Bowles, 1736-1745.

Indexed in (note)

1. Phillips
2. Lowery
3. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Source of description (note)

1. This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. The University of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

Author

1. Moll, Herman, -1732, creator.

Title

1. Florida, called by ye French Louisiana &c. / by H. Moll, geographer.

Publisher

1. [London] : [Printed for Thos. Bowles & John Bowles], [between 1736-1745]

Cartographic data

1. Scale approximately 1:10,250,000 (W 109°00ʹ--W 77°00ʹ/N 40°00ʹ--N 22°30ʹ).

Type of content

1. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Indexed in:

1. Phillips, 585, 602
2. Lowery, 322
3. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 4, page 51, column 2, no. 6

Local note

1. NYPL Map Div. copy is pasted on sheet 31 x 36 cm.

Source

1. US052.1.03

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida copy image

Place of publication

1. Great Britain England London.

Added author

1. Bowles, Thomas, -1767, publisher.
2. Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
3. Moll, Herman, -1732. Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps.
4. Ford Collection.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 15-5685 [Filed with Florida]