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'A New Map of Denmark and Sweden. According to ye Newest and most Exact Observations....
Catalogue reference: WO 78/419/14
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This record is about the 'A New Map of Denmark and Sweden. According to ye Newest and most Exact Observations.... dating from [?1711-1713] in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 78/419/14
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?1711-1713]
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Description (What the record is about)
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'A New Map of Denmark and Sweden. According to ye Newest and most Exact Observations. By H Moll Geographer. To His Excellency John Lord Bishop of Bristol Ld. Privy Seal and Her Majesty's first Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Utrecht. This Map is Humbly Dedicated by your Excellency's most humble Servant ...': map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States, covering the area between Lake Torneträsk (in Sweden), Vitebsk (Vitsyebsk, now in Belarus) and Heligoland (Helgoland, now part of Germany). Various reference notes. Title in an ornate cartouche, with a coat of arms, cherubim and a figure in armour. Drawings showing Lapp (Sámi) buildings, dress and transport, with a descriptive reference table. Scale: 1 inch to about 38 miles (scale bars also in Swedish and Danish miles and German leagues). Compass indicator. Printed for [Herman] Moll, and for Thomas Bowles, John Bowles, and Philip Overton. Inset: continuation northward to 'Greenland' (i.e. Spitzbergen).
John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, was Keeper of the Privy Seal under Queen Anne from August 1711 to August 1713 and the Treaty of Utrecht was signed in April 1713; presumably the map originally dates from this period.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- Engraved, with MS colouring
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- Open Document, Open Description
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