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EARLY 18TH-CENTURY MAP OF ASIA

Lot No. 16: HERMAN MOLL

A GENERAL AND PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF ASIA

  • Medium: Hand coloured Map
  • Size: 15.9 x 12.4 inches

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Estimate

15,000 - 25,000


Estimate US$

180-300

Ends at Nov 28, 2024 07:15 PM IST

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HERMAN MOLL

A GENERAL AND PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF ASIA

Mounted

Map Size: 30.8 x 19.5 cm (12.1 x 7.6 inches)
Mount Size: 40.5 x 31.6 cm (15.9 x 12.4 inches)

This hand-coloured map of Asia shows the geographical expansion from Arabia across to the Philippines. Below and on the verso of the map has the charming contemporary descriptive text about Asia.

Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was the most renowned cartographer in early 18th-century Britain, and his large double-sheet atlas, The World Described, first published in 1709 and expanded during Moll’s lifetime and even after his death, was the most important folio atlas of its day. While historians like Dennis Reinhartz have discussed the presence of Moll’s maps in encyclopaedic geography texts like Atlas Geographus as well as buccaneer narratives like William Dampier’s A Voyage Round the World and Woodes Rogers’ A Cruising Voyage Round the World and fictional texts like Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, they have not discussed to any extent how narrative was an integral part of Moll’s maps in The World Described.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
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