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Auction 126, Lot 362
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"A Map of Mexico or New Spain Florida now called Louisiana and Part of California &c.", Moll, Herman

Subject: United States & Mexico

Period: 1717 (circa)

Publication: A Complete system of geography, ancient and modern

Color: Hand Color

Size:
10 x 7 inches
25.4 x 17.8 cm
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Uncommon, copper engraved map; the details throughout include many Indian names and early forts. Area extends from about the 37th parallel just to South America in Terra Firma. The only British colony shown is a large Carolina. The Spanish possession of Louisiana includes Florida and extends to the Rio Grande (here called the North River). Texas is not named but is inhabited by White and Black Spaniards, and Country full of Beeves. The Baja is distorted and the Gulf of California extends too far north, because Moll depicts California as an island on his other maps.

References: McLaughlin #180.

Condition: B+

Lightly toned with a few printer's creases.

Estimate: $550 - $650

Sold for: $400

Closed on 12/3/2008

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