1745 CHART OF THE BALTICK OR EAST SEA GULF OF FINLAND Baltic Norway Moll (LM32-21)

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1745 A CHART OF THE BALTICK or EAST SEA GULF of FINLAND c by Herman Moll Cartographer.A scarce, chart of the Baltic Sea focusing only on the coastlines. The elegant map centers on a decorative compass rose with radiating rhumb lines. Size approx 38cm x 31.5cm including margins. Condition excellent.Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was one of themost important Londonmapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century. Moll was probably born inBremen, Germany, around 1654. He moved toLondon to escape the Scanian Wars. His earliest work wasas an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of theEnglish Atlas,a failed work which landed Pitt in debtors prison. Moll also engraved for Sir Jonas Moore, Grenville Collins, John Adair, and the Seller Price firm. He published his first original maps in the early 1680s and had set up his own shop by the 1690s.Molls work quickly helped him become a member of a group which congregated at Jonathans Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill, wherespeculators met to trade stock. Mollscircle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these contacts, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was included in his maps.Over the course of his career, he published dozens of geographies, atlases, and histories, not to mention numerous sheet maps. His most famous works areAtlas Geographus, a monthly magazine that ran from 1708 to 1717, andThe World Described(1715-54). He also frequently made maps for books, including those of Dampiers publications and SwiftsGullivers Travels.Moll died in 1732. It is likely that his plates passed to another contemporary, Thomas Bowles, after this death. N° de ref. del artículo LM32-21-5129292

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