Map of North America. According to the newest and most exact observations, by Herman Moll Geographer. One of Herman Moll’s most famous maps, often referred to as The Codfish Map. As an enhancement to his “Map of North America,” Moll engraved orthographic or plan views of ten bays in North America and the Caribbean in the lower left-hand corner of the map. Each bay was the location of a major port city and harbour. Five of the port cities were British (St. John’s, Boston, New York, Charleston, and Port Royal) and five were Spanish (Havana, Portobello, Vera Cruz, Cartagena, and Acapulco). The inset views on the North American map did not show structures, harbour scenes or ships. Moll engraved the insets in the style of navigational charts, complete with numbers on some of the charts, representing depth soundings in fathoms.

YEAR: circa 1719
CARTOGRAPHER: Herman Moll

Map of CENTRAL AMERICA. The map depicts from southern Mexico and the Yucatan peninsula south to the extreme northern Costa Rica. Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica are labelled, as well as both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and numerous islands along the Atlantic coast. Three beautiful vignettes are included, the volcano of Izalco, which is in El Salvador, the Great Square of the Antigua in Guatemala, and a scene from Belize.

Map of SOUTH AMERICA. This map covers the entire continent, from the Caribbean to Tierra del Fuego and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Includes the Galapagos, Juan Fernandez, Falkland, and South Georgia island groups. Shows Bolivia with an outlet to the Sea and Patagonia as separate from the Argentine Republic and Chile.
This map also identifies various cities, towns, forts, rivers, rapids, mountain passes, fords. It has additional topographical details, and was originally issued in Colton’s, 1856, Atlas of the World.

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