Moll, Herman

5 volumes, 4to (225 x 165mm.), engraved additional title in volume one, letterpress titles within double-ruled border,109 engraved maps and plates, contemporary panelled calf, blindstamps to titles, some browning throughout, old repairs to several plates, maps and text leaves, spines chipped at head and foot, joints split, extremities rubbed

Abraham Harman (Dodbrooke, Devon, signature to each title, subscriber listed as 'Abraham Hayman, Attorney at Law'); Henry Perkins (1779-1855, Springfield Park, Surrey, armorial bookplate)

Phillips 3477; D. Reinhartz The Cartographer and the Literati - Herman Moll and his Intellectual Circle [New York, etc.: 1997] pp.28-30; Shirley, British Library T.MOLL-3a (an imperfect copy, lacking one map and with a duplicate bound in place of a second map, both in vol.3); Sabin 49902; Wardington II:300 (incomplete, lacked 'New Guinea...' map)

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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A rare English atlas, published over six years and very seldom found complete.

"Thus have we with great pains, and at immense expence, finished the Atlas Geographus ... And tho' a work of this nature can hardly ever be said to be compleat; yet without vanity we may averr this to be the perfectest that has yet been published in any language" (note at foot of final page in vol.V).

Volumes 1 and 2 cover Europe whilst 3 -5 are on Asia, Africa and America respectively. A sixth volume (devoted to the British Isles) was planned but was never issued as part of this set. The volume largely devoted to the Americas (but including Australia) includes engraved folding maps of Australia and New Guinea.