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    "title": "To the Right Honourable William, Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, this map of Asia",
    "description": "Map of the Middle East and Asia including the East Indies. It features characteristic misconceptions of early 18th century cartography such as New Guinea as a peninsula of the southern continent and Iapon or Niphon [i.e. Japan] having a huge northern island called Land of Iesso [presumably the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin].",
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    "year": 1710,
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        "Moll, Herman, d. 1732"
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        "Asia--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Cowper, William Cowper, Earl, ca. 1665-1723",
        "1715–1718"
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        "Map of the Middle East and Asia including the East Indies. It features characteristic misconceptions of early 18th century cartography such as New Guinea as a peninsula of the southern continent and Iapon or Niphon [i.e. Japan] having a huge northern island called Land of Iesso [presumably the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin].",
        "Prime meridians: Ferro and London.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Dedicated to Lord Cowper, High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1714-1718.",
        "Block of text at far right lower side of map indicating that two Jesuit explorers, Paul Clain and Le Gibien, had reported 87 islands found east or south-east of the Philippines but this was not yet confirmed by other explorers.",
        "Insets: Hellespont, or ye Straits of Constantinople -- The Gulf of Smirna -- Bombay and Sallset Isl. -- Hugley R. from Buffalow Point to Hugly Towne -- The Ice Sea -- Part of Chusan I. -- [Amoy Island].",
        "Appears in Moll's The world described, [1709-1736], plate 4."
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