A New and Exact Map of America: Bowles, c.1730

Title: A New and Exact MAP OF AMERICA laid Down from the latest observations and Discoveries | Sold by J. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill Author: John Bowles Date: c.1730 Condition: See description  Inches: 23 x 38 Centimeters: 58.42 x 96.52 Product ID: 308258 First Appearance of Rare Map of America? Supremely rare map of the Western Hemisphere incorporating the intellectual efforts of Herman Moll, whose plates were purchased by the Bowles after Moll’s death in 1732.  The nomenclature for the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are identical to Moll’s world map.  The map depicts the Western Hemisphere on the Mercator Projection, a method devised by cartographer Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) to represent the three-dimensional globe in two dimensions. In the upper right, Bowles uses the Moll inset of ‘The North Pole’ showing the theoretical locations of the Northwest and Northeast Passages through the Arctic, although he updates the language from Moll’s original: It has often