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This is at first glance an index of contents to the 'World Described' by Herman Moll, his double folio world atlas. From about 1730 examples were sold by John Bowles (1701-79), one of the most active of the Bowles family of map and print sellers which dominated much of the eighteenth century. Although this is a contents list for the atlas it bears below a list of other publications some of which have no connection to Herman Moll. The list is therefore a John Bowles production. It offers 'A Sett of fifty new and correct Maps of England and Wales' first published in 1724, 'A Sett of Thirty-six new and correct Maps of Scotland' first published in 1725, 'A Sett of Twenty new and correct Maps of Ireland' first published in 1728, the 'Geographia Antiqua' first published in 1721, the 'Britannia Depicta' from 1720 and lastly the 'Atlas Minor' first published in 1729. Worms and Baynton-Williams cite that Bowles however moved to the Black Horse in Cornhill in 1730. These broadside sheets were issued for distribution and as such have an appalling survival rate unless as is likely here it was pasted inside an atlas at some time. Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
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