The World in Planisphere by Herman Moll. Insular California 1709 old map
The World in Planisphere. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Herman Moll. Provenance: "The Compleat Geographer: or, the Chorography and Topography of all the known parts of the Earth", by Herman Moll. Third edition. Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Paternoster Row and Timothy Childe at the White Hart at the West End of St. Paul's Churchyard. Type: Antique copperplate map. California is shown as an island. The South Atlantic Ocean is marked with its classical name of the "Ethiopian Ocean". Parts of the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand are shown. The phantom St Matthew Island is shown south of Liberia. Africa is shown to contain a series of apparently interconnected river systems and large lakes; the Niger river is shown conflated with the Senegal river, flowing west to the sea at Cape Verde, and also apparently connected to the Nile.
Size: 2388px × 3374px
Location: World
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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