The Compleat Geographer: Or, The Chorography and Topography of all the known Parts of the Earth. by MOLL Herman 1654?-1732 - 1709

London at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row. and at the West-End of St. Paul's Church-Yard.: Awnsham and John Churchill. And Timothy Childe, 1709 VG, 3rd ed, 2 parts in 1, large folding map, 45 engraved maps in text, including 9 maps of the Americas, & showing California as an island. In contemporary paneled calf, corners & edges bumped & worn. Respined, gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt title to black calf label. Internally, frontis, [24], (lv), [5], 482 pp, [2], includes engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding engraved map, 45 engraved maps in text, engraved illustrations of sphere & astronomical systems, woodcut of compass, a shelf number & bookplate to fpd (Coker Court [in East Coker, Somerset]), main tp in red and black within double ruled borders, separate title to Part 2, some leaves heavily browned (but easily legible), L1 with 2 holes causing loss of a few letters, 1 or 2 maps shaved at fore-edge touching border, short marginal tear p186. With the usual miss pagination - contact Madoc Books for a list. (Folio202*317 mm). (Sabine 49905. ESTC T113918). First published in 1701. Moll's reputation rests upon a long and extremely fertile career of almost sixty years that yielded a diverse offering of over two dozen geographies, atlases, and histories and a myriad of individual maps, charts, and globes, spanning the known earth. Through his many works, he had also had an impact beyond geography and cartography on his adopted country and its future by graphically staunchly advocating early British expansion and empire. See ODNB.