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Autor: Herman Moll (1654? ? 1732) fue un cartógrafo, grabador y editor. Moll se trasladó a Inglaterra en 1678 y abrió una librería de mapas en Londres. A veces realizaba mapas utilizando los estudios procedentes del trabajo de otros cartógrafos Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century. Moll was probably born in Bremen, Germany, around 1654. He moved to London to escape the Scanian Wars. His earliest work was as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas, a failed work which landed Pitt in debtor's 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. Moll's work quickly helped him become a member of a group which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill, where speculators met to trade stock. Moll's circle 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 are Atlas Geographus, a monthly magazine that ran from 1708 to 1717, and The World Described (1715-54). He also frequently made maps for books, including those of Dampier?s publications and Swift?s Gulliver?s Travels. Moll died in 1732. It is likely that his plates passed to another contemporary, Thomas Bowles, after this death ------------------------------------------------------------------- Título: The Island of Barbadoes Divided into its Parishes, with the Roads, Paths, & c. According to an Actual and Accurate Survey. By H. Moll Geographer ------------------------------------------------------------------- Obra de Procedencia: "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps, in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth; with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed & laid down agreable to modern history. By Herman Moll, Geographer" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lugar y Fecha de Publicación: London, Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, (1732 o 1736) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Técnica: Aguafuerte ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dimensiones papel: cm. 36,8-39x30,8-31,3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Estado de conservación: Pequeño desgarros, pliegues, manchas, el mapa tiene casi 300 años y tiene un envejecimiento normal por este tipo de papel, conservado como se ve en las fotos ------------------------------------------------------------------- Descripción: Mapa antigua original con líneas pintadas a mano. Rara. Striking example of this Moll's map of Barbados. The Bermuda map includes significant details, including Tribes, towns, bays, islands, sounds, and other details.Ver título y foto Barbados es uno de los trece países que forman la América Insular, Antillas o Islas del Caribe. Su capital y ciudad más poblada es Bridgetown. Situada en las Antillas Menores, es la más oriental de las islas, encontrándose al este de Santa Lucía y San Vicente y las Granadinas. España conquistó la isla debido a que fue ahí donde llegó Colón en su primer viaje en el siglo XV. En el siglo XVII los ingleses convirtieron el lugar en una colonia del Reino Unido. Dicha situación se mantuvo hasta 1966, cuando su pueblo declaró la independencia el 30 de noviembre. Ese año ingresó en la ONU y en la Mancomunidad de Naciones. Es una monarquía constitucional, con Isabel II como jefe de Estado y la gobernadora general como su representante en la isla. Su población supera los 290 000 habitantes, en su mayoría protestantes. El idioma oficial es el inglés. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Palabras Claves: Grabados, Carta Originale, Original Engraving, Incisione Originale, Maps, Map, Copper Plate, Acquaforte, Gravure, Geografia, Mapa geográfico, Carte géographique, Carte Geografica, maps with hand colored outline ------------------------------------------------------------------- |