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Subject:        Re: Map ID advice
Date:   Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:56:59 -0500
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



Here is a copy of the Moll image Ed references:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps4675.html . The image is similar, but the
cartouche and title is different, Moll's text is distinctive, and there
is no bordered scale in the lower left. Also, Thomas Kitchin produced a
number of similar images (perhaps based on Moll?), with one quite like
this done in about 1770, but again with a cartouche similar, but not
identical to the map in question. Kitchin's map does not have the border
around the scale in the lower left corner, separating it from the map in
question.

Sorry I cannot be more precise.

      Joel Kovarsky

Angie Cope wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Re: Map ID advice
> Date:   Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:24:02 -0500
> From:   Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum Maps
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> It appears that you have a Moll.  (That's Herman Moll, not the furry
> kind.)
>
> While I have not looked for your specific plate, a similar plate
> appears in his 1732 'Atlas Minor' published in London.
>
> Ed
>
> Ed Redmond
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