File:B26055944B - To the Right Honourable William, Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, this map of Asia.jpg
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This is a map of Asia, an Overton edition, bearing the names of John Bowles, Phillip Overton and John King as mapsellers
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English: This is a map of Asia, an Overton edition, bearing the names of John Bowles, Phillip Overton and John King as mapsellers. The Indian ocean monsoon rains are depicted as lines of magnetic variation. In a caption to the right of the Philippines, Moll tells of two Jesuit explorers, Paul Clain and Le Gibien, who had reportedly found 87 islands east or south-east of the Philippines. |
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| Source | NLB Singapore, David Parry Southeast Asian Map Collection. Available on BookSG https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/baf5e56f-c9e7-4af9-8671-c5944c60c51a.aspx |
| Author | Moll, Herman, -1732; Bowles, John, 1751-1819, bookseller; Bowles, Thomas, -1767, bookseller; King, John, bookseller; Overton, Philip, -1751, bookseller |
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