The Great World Maps
Moll's World of Winds
The trade winds, drawn as small arrows on the sea.
- Map
- A new & correct map of the whole world
- Mapmaker
- Herman Moll
- Date
- 1719
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Herman Moll, a London mapmaker, made this world map as plate 2 of his atlas The World Described to record the English voyages hunting for an ocean passage to Asia. He also drew the trade winds, as small arrows and curving lines on the sea, taken from the first weather map, published by Edmund Halley in 1686. Notes on climate and storms fill the gaps, and an inset charts the variation of the compass as it was observed in 1700. For a captain these winds decided how long a crossing took. Moll put the invisible on paper.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
