'To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers [Somers] Baron of Evesham in ye County...

'To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers [Somers] Baron of Evesham in ye County of Worcester President of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council & c. This Map of North America According to ye Newest and most Exact Observations is most Humbly Dedicated by your Lordship's most Humbler Servant Herman Moll Geographer': including Central America and the Caribbean islands; also showing the Atlantic Ocean as far east as Ireland. The map shows the limits of [British possessions] in pink, [French possessions] in blue, and [Spanish possessions] in yellow. Various reference notes. Title in a cartouche, with a coat of arms and figures intended to represent native peoples. View of a Newfoundland fishing village, with a reference table to fishery activities. Compass indicator. Drawn by B Lens; engraved by G Vertue; printed for John, Bowles, Thomas Bowles, Philip Overton and John King; [published and] sold by Moll. Insets: maps of the following harbours and coastal towns: Saint John's, Newfoundland; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York; Charleston, South Carolina; Port Royal, South Carolina; Havana, Cuba; Vera Cruz (now in Mexico); Acapulco (now in Mexico); 'Porto Bella' [?Portobelo, now in Panama]; and Cartagena (now in Colombia).

Lord Somers was President of the Privy Council between November 1708 and September 1710; presumably the map originally dates from this period; however, Reinhartz dates the map to 1717. Due to its decoration, this map is commonly known as the 'Codfish Map'.