[Herman Moll]. California shown as labeled island with a rounded northern coast. P. S. F. Drake is the only labeled point. Includes polar projection centred on North Pole. Australia depicted without east coast and named New Holland. Title within a banner unfurled above the two hemispheres and on either side of a north polar projection. Folded. Page 1. Issued in Thesaurus geographicus. A New body of geography / Abell Swall and Tim Child ..., 1695. Reissued in 1700, 1701 and 1709. Issued in his Atlas manuale : or, A New sett of maps of all the parts of the earth, as well Asia, Africa and America, as Europe Map 1. -- London : for A. & J. Church, 1709.
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