To the Right Honourable/ WILLIAM/ Lord Cowper, Lord High CHANCELLOR of/ GREAT BRITAIN./ This MAP of/ ASIA/ According to y.e Newest/ and most Exact Observations is/ most Humbly Dedica/ ted by your Lordship's most Humble/ Servant/ Herman Moll Geographer.

Date1715-1718

Cartographer Herman Moll (1654?-1732)

Publisher Herman Moll (1654?-1732)

Publisher John Bowles 1701 - 1779

Publisher Thomas Bowles II ca.1689 - 1767

Publisher Philip Overton d. 1751

Publisher John King 1698 - 1748

OriginEngland, London

MediumBlack and white line engraving with period hand color on laid paper

DimensionsOH: 25" x OW: 39"; Plate H: 23" x W: 38 1/8"

Credit LineGift of the Map House

Object number1979-285

DescriptionThe lower left cartouche reads: "To the Right Honourable/ WILLIAM/ Lord Cowper, Lord High CHANCELLOR of/ GREAT BRITAIN./ This MAP of/ ASIA/ To the Right Honourable/ WILLIAM/ Lord Cowper, Lord High CHANCELLOR of/ GREAT BRITAIN./ This MAP of/ ASIA/ According to y.e Newest/ and most Exact Observations is/ most Humbly Dedica/ ted by your Lordship's most Humble/ Servant/ Herman Moll Geographer."

Text to the right of the cartouche reads: "Printed for H. Moll over against Dvereux/ Court without Temple Bar In.o Bowles Print/ and Map Seller at the Black Horse in Cornhill/ and Tho. Bowles Print and/ Mapseller next to the Chapter house/ in S.t Pauls Church yard./ by Philip Overton Map and Printseller/ near S.t Dunstan's Church Fleet street,/ and by John King at y.e Globe in y.e Poultry"ProvenanceBefore 1979, The Map House (London, England); 1979-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).