To the Right Honourable William Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain This Map of Asia According to ye...

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Copper engraving, original hand colored in outline when published. This antique map was published in Hermann Moll's atlas ,The World Described, or a New and Correct Sett of Maps ... , in London at J. & T. Bowles circa 1708-26. A highly decorative map of the of the entire Asian continent from the Middle East across Central Asia towards the Far East with Korea and Japan, further including in the southeastern Papua New Guinea. Decorated in the upper corner with seven inset maps: Nova Zembla, the Hellespont, Gulf of Smyrna, the British factories in Chusan and Amoy and the Hugli River. The geographer Hermann Moll came originally from the Netherlands and worked in London in the beginning for Moses Pitt. Later he became one of the important map publishers in England. The atlases, which he published were widely well known. He engraved as well maps for other English publishers (John Seller, etc.).

Phillips (Atlases), 554.