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Jamaica Title: A New Map of he Island of Jamaica. By H. Moll Geographer. Artist: Moll, Herman Published: London, Th. Bowles and John Bowles Date: 1736 Size: [18,3 x 26,2 cm] Technic: Copper engraving / later hand color Description: Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. Highly decorative map of Jamaica by the English cartographer Hermann Moll. With many details of rivers, mountains, place names, cliffs, bays, etc. Further with an explanation for factories for sugar, cotton, indigo and cacao. The geographer Hermann Moll worked 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.) . Notes: In excellent condition. A strong impression, on the full sheet as published; the map was originally folded in the atlas, so that old folds are more or less minor visible. Condition: Excellent Reference: Price: /
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