MOLL HERMAN A New Map of the World Shewing the Course of Sr

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MOLL, HERMAN. A New Map of the World Shewing the Course of Sr. Francis Drake, William Schouten and Capt William Dampier's Voyages Round it. Engraved folding double-hemispheric map of the world showing California as an island. 15 1/2x21 1/4 inches sheet size, upper and lower margins wide, close to plate mark at left and right; hand-colored in outline; lightly toned, original folds flattened. London, circa 1700

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Published in John Harris's Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, this interesting world map outlines the sailing routes of three of the most famous early circumnavigators and the global discoveries theretofore known. Much of Australia and the northwest portion of America is left incomplete.