Eastern hemisphere drawn on Mercator projection, with insert of Western hemisphere showing California as an island. Dashed line indicates “quatenus a veteribus cogniti, speciatim tali linea ---- comprehensi” [“A map of the World, as far as known by the Ancients, particularly what is comprehended within such a line”, as per volume’s table of maps]. Dotted line indicates “Quicquid Romano paruit Imperio hoc modo ..... notatum est” [“The Roman empire is thus defined”]. (below title, within cartouche). Insert map: 4.3 cm. diameter to its outside border; showing Western hemisphere. California as large island with rounded northern coastline. Below insert: AMERICAM Gerardus Mer=cator, Abrahamus Ortelius et alii Atlanticam Platonis In=sulam esse arbitrati sunt. Issued in his: Thirty two new and accurate maps of the geography of the ancients, as contained in the Greek and Latin classicks ... , The Second Edition = Geographia antiqua Latinorum & Græcorum, tabulis XXXII = Geographia classica emendata, ex Græcorum Latinorumq, authoribus antiquis, ubi tabellis XXXII/ by Herman Moll, geographer. -- Doctissimo Viro Wilhelmo Stukeley M.D. : [London], 1726. Reissued in unnumbered 1732 edition. [Herman Moll]. Thomas Suárez.
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