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Re: [Fwd: Re: Map ID advice]
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Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:44:20 -0600
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: [Fwd: Re: Map ID advice]
Date:   Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:39:05 -0500
From:   s hawkins <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



Also a few tiny details are different, like a very small maelstrom at
the topmost edge of my map is not on the reference you give. Harrumph!
Curiouser and Curiouser!

---sue h

On Nov 13, 2007 1:04 PM, Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > Geography & Map Reference Specialist
> > Geography and Map Division
> > Library of Congress
> > 101 Independence Ave, SE
> > Washington, DC 20540-4651
> > (202) 707-8548
> > [log in to unmask]
>
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