Map Moll Herman (5 results)

Date & imprint from entry in NLS. [London: Bowles and Bowles, 1745]. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

A charming map of Port Royal Harbor, with a notation that "the Harbour is large, safe, and commodious and runs into ye best country in Carolina. Here ye air is always clear and agreeable to Europian (sic) constitutions." Published in Moll's Atlas Minor. Hilton's Head is identified, as is Bauford Town. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps: 200 (illustrated as color plate 16). Apparent original outline color. Some soiling and raggedness in the margins. Tiny pin hole, and small repair on reverse where paper appears to have been previously mounted. 8 x 10 5/8.".

61cm x 102cm. [24" x 40"]. Engraved map, outlined in contemporary colour; few small expert repairs with Japanese paper; backed on fine grain linen, fine condition, rare. NMM Cat. I11, vol. 1 : 398/67; Tooley Maps and Map Makers, p. 113; Karpinski XX VII; Campbell, Early Maps, p. 37." "No other maps tell us as much about their authors as those of Herrnan Moll [he] could not resist airing his theories and prejudices in long notes scattered over his maps.most of Moll's notes were reserved for the castigation of continental map publishers, among them this particular enemy, the French royal geographer Guillaume De l'1sle". His map is a good example of cartography used to promote or consolidate hegemony in any one region; he describes the French presence in Louisiana as "incroachments" and refers proudly to the Iroquois "by much ye most powerful] of all ye neighbouring Indian Nations, the old Friends and Allies of ye English who ever esteemed them to be the Bulwark and Security of all their Plantations in North America." The seeds of the Seven Years' War had been well planted!

Engraved, with hand-colored national boundary lines. 1 vols. Image 23 x 38 inches, matted and framed to 28-1/2 x 44 inches. One fold rubbed with very slight loss, else fine, and attractive Engraved, with hand-colored national boundary lines. 1 vols. Image 23 x 38 inches, matted and framed to 28-1/2 x 44 inches.

Very good. Original color faded. Light age toning, edge wear, and minor discoloration - as is common with this map. Size 42.5 x 24.25 Inches. This is Herman Moll's 1715 'Beaver Map' of the British Colonies in America, here in its 1733 state (see below). In addition to its iconic and namesake image of Niagara Falls and the rich American peltries, this map is also significant as one of the most accurate maps of the period and the first large-scale map to show American postal routes. A Closer Look Coverage embraces the northeastern parts of North America, from Lake Erie to the Eastern Seaboard and from Newfoundland to St. Augustine.The British colonies are divided into Newfoundland, New Scotland, Cape Breton, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina. A large part of the territory northwest of Pennsylvania is segregated for the Iroquois League, staunch British allies who would go on to play a significant role in the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). The map is dedicated to Walter Dowglass (Walter Douglas; 1670 - 1739), the British colonial governor of the Leeward Islands from 1711 to 1716. The Beaver Inset The map's namesake and the most striking visual element is the large vignette of Niagara Falls with an industrious colony of beavers in the foreground. The popular image capitalizes on European fascination with the lucrative fur trade, a source of seemingly endless wealth. The beaver, a fascinating creature itself, came to symbolize land management, wealth, and hard work. Moll did not originate this image. The view of Niagara Falls was first published in Utrecht in 1697 to illustrate explorer and conman Louis Hennepin's Nouvelle Decouverte d'un Tres Grand Pays Situe dans l'Amerique . Cartographer Nicholas de Fer adapted the image, adding the colony of beavers, for his 1713 Carte de La Mer du Sud et de La Mer du Nord . Moll derived the vignette from this source. After Moll, it was copied by Henri Chatelain for his 1719 Carte Très Curieuse de la Mer du Sud (Geographicus: CarteTresCurieuse-chatelain-1719). Louisiana Inset: Thomas Narine Cartography The map features several significant insets, the leftmost of which, covering Louisiana, Florida, and modern-day South Carolina, is the most important, as it follows Indian Agent Thomas Nairne's important and early explorations of the interior of North Carolina. Narine was a Scottish militiaman and politician who emigrated to Carolina in 1695. He advocated an Indian policy of trade and religious conversion, which caused him to be appointed Agent of Indian Affairs in 1712. In this position, he spent as much as 10 months a year in the Carolina hinterlands, producing some of the most comprehensive inland cartography then available. Narine's appointment unfortunately coincided with Queen Anne's War (1702 - 1713), which included egregious abuses of the Yamassee Indians. While attempting to reopen trade in 1715, the Yamassee, eager for revenge, captured the trade delegation, which included Narine, and brutally tortured them to death via petit feu , a horrific torture involved burning pitch pine inserted under the sin. Narine reportedly lasted several days. Carolina Inset The large central Carolina inset is also significant. Here, it has been updated over earlier states to include parishes. An alphanumeric key in the lower left identifies 35 plantations by the last names of their owners. An inset map of Charleston appears just to the right, with 20 key locations noted. A final inset, in the lower right, contextualizes the map within the continent. Historical Context This map emerged in the wake of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, one of several that brought a close to the drawn-out War of Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714). In terms of America, it forced France to cede Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay to the British, as reflected here. All territory East of the Great Lakes and south of the St. Lawrence River is definitively British ter.