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    "title": "A new and correct map of the world, laid down according to the newest discoveries, and from the most exact observations",
    "description": "Shows the world as a double hemisphere, annual winds and wind directions, solar equinox and ecliptic, and noted corrections over previous geography.",
    "date": "[\"[1727?–1739?]\"]",
    "year": 1727,
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        "Moll, Herman, d. 1732"
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    "publisher": "printed for L. Bowles & Son ... by T. Bowles ...and by R. Sayer ... and by John King"
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        "Shows the world as a double hemisphere, annual winds and wind directions, solar equinox and ecliptic, and noted corrections over previous geography.",
        "Prime meridian: Ferro.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Insets: The Ptolemean systeme -- The North Pole -- The Copernican systeme -- Mercury -- The appearance of the Sun according to Mr. Kircher -- Venus -- Mars -- Saturn -- Jupiter -- The appearance of the Moon according to Mr. Cassini.",
        "Includes dedication within ornamental cartouche: To His Most Sacred Majesty George IId by the grace of God King of Great Britain France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c. this map is humbly dedicated.",
        "Includes text.",
        "Appears in Moll's The world described, [1709-1736], plate 1."
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