Antique map of the United State by H. Moll: The Beaver Map c. 1726
A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America Containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania Maryland, Virginia and Carolina ...
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Category: Antique maps > America > North America
Map of Eastern North America, shows the status of the English colonies and England's claims at the end of the Queen Anne's War (The War of the Spanish Successsion, 1702-1713).
Five insets: Thomas Nairne's map of South Carolina and English, French, and Indian settlements; Part of Carolina; Principal part of North America; Charles-Town harbor; View of Niagara Falls, known as the Beaver Inset.
The map is famous for the so-called Beaver Inset, a picture of the cataract of Niagara. This map proffers one of the earliest references to postal routes in North America and includes, as an inset, an important map of Carolina.
Cumming: This beautifully designed map, with its insets, gives a great deal of information about the Carolina region. The main map gives the Atlantic coastline from "St. Augustin in Louisiana" to "The Great Bay of the Esquimaux" in Labrador. Though several of the insets were apparently suggested by Nairne's insets in Crisp's 1711 map, Moll did not depend entirely upon them for his information. For later changes in the Carolina inset Barnwell's 1721 map was probably used.
Four different issues of this map were known to H.N. Stevens - See Phillips (Atlases) III, p.256: Stevens: "I know of 4 states of this map. The first and second issues of this map are very rare, especially the first. The first has the imprint of H. Moll alone his address. The second has Moll's name with address deleted and name & address of I. King added ..."
Cumming gives 6 states of this map. Our copy is the first.
Copper engraving, printed from two plates, joined.
Size: 102.5 x 61.5cm (40 x 24 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured with later additions, a few small marginal tears repaired, upper right margin trimmed to just over the neatline.
Condition Rating: A
References: Schwartz-Ehrenberg, p.135; Phillips (Atlases) III, p.256; Cumming, 158, A; Campbell, Early Maps, p.37, pl. 14; Tooley (America), 55, Kershaw, 331 A
From: Moll Herman, The World Described, or a New and Correct Sett of Maps . . . London, J. & T. Bowles, c. 1726. (Phillips (Atlases), 554)