Detail View: Old Maps Collection: To the Right Honourable William, Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, this map of Asia : according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated

Barcode: 
4687820500478
Title: 
To the Right Honourable William, Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, this map of Asia : according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated
Original Title: 
To the Right Honourable William, Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, this map of Asia : according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated
Contributor: 
Moll, Herman, -1732
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
English
Create Year: 
1709-1720
Format: 
JPEG, 11934 × 7505, 95.6MB
Scale: 
[ca. 1:19,000,000]
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
59 x 97
Note: 
Map of the Middle East and Asia including the East Indies. It features characteristic misconceptions of early 18th century cartography such as New Guinea as a peninsula of the southern continent and Iapon or Niphon [i.e. Japan] having a huge northern island called Land of Iesso [presumably the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin]. Insets in the top left hand corner : "Hellespont or ye Straits of Constanti-nople by Capt.Bamburg", "The Gulf of Smirna", Bombay and Sallset Isl., Hugly R. from Buffalow Point to Hugly Towne. Insets in the top right hand corner :"Part of Chusan Island to China" and "Too avoid too great a contraction of the scale, the supposed North Coast of Asia is continued here." The map shows the seasonal winds. An input of text questions the New Philippines.
Note: 
Macao and the surrounding islands were depicted in this map.
Note: 
Macao in Asia Maps
Subject: 
Seasonal winds
Geographic Area: 
Asia
Pub Title: 
The world described : or, a new and correct sett of maps: shewing the several empires, kingdoms, republics...in all the known parts of the earth
Pub Author: 
Moll, Herman, -1732
Pub Year: 
[1709-1720]
Pub location: 
[London]
Provenance: 
Houghton Library - Harvard College Library
MUST holding: 
http://10.20.100.239/record=b1388981