The World Described : or, a New and Correct Sett of Maps.
[London: John Bowles, n.d., ca. 1730’s].
Price: $2,250.00
About the item
1 p. publisher's broadside advertisement. Folio (16-1/4 x 10-1/2 in.). Toned, a few faint spots of soil, contemporary docketing at lower margin. Near fine. Matted. cf. Phillips 554.
Item #244226
An undated broadside advertisement by publisher John Bowles for an edition of Herman Moll's atlas THE WORLD DESCRIBED, listing the 28 maps contained therein and advertising 5 other cartographic works printed by Bowles. This broadside is sometimes found pasted in copies of the atlas, in lieu of a title page (cf. OCLC 49408613, but is rarely seen alone).