Large world map on a Mercator’s projection showing California as an island with two deeply inset bays at the north. Mountains shown near Pto. Sr. Francis Drake with Mt. St. Martin labeled. The trade winds are shown with directional lines and arrows. With two inset maps: A chart of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans (center left), and a North Polar projection (bottom left). Below the ocean chart is a diatribe against the inferior work of the mapmaker, Moses Pitt. The map includes the tracks of Arctic explorers and Woodes Rogers’cruise of the South Pacific. A second rectangular title cartouche (bottom center) states: A New & Correct MAP of the WHOLE WORLD Shewing ye Situation of its Principal Parts. Viz the Seas, Kingdoms, Rivers, Capes, Ports, Mountains, Woods, Trade-Winds, Monsoons, Variation of ye Com= pass, Climats, &c. ... By Herman Moll Geographer. 1719. Both cartouches note that: “The Projection of this Map is call’d Mercator’s the Designe is to make it Useful both for Land and Sea. And it is laid Down with all Possible Care, according to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations.” Sold by H: Moll, where you may have his new Atlas or Set of Twenty-seven Two-sheet Maps, bound or single, all Colour’d according to his Direction, over against Devereux-Court, between Temple Bar and St. Clement’s Church, in the Strand. (lower right). Main oval title cartouche (upper left) surrounded by four men representing the continents. Within the title cartouche: L. Cheron delin. (and) E. Kirkall sculp. By Herman Moll, Geographer.
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