File:Galapagos 1699.gif

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Title: The Gallapagos Islands Discovered by Capt. Iohn Eaton.

An uncolored copy of the Herman Moll map included in William Hack's 1699 A Collection of Original Voyages... based on Cowley's 1684 manuscript map. Longitude (badly) reckoned from the Lizard in Cornwall instead of London or Greenwich.
Date engraving of a 1684 draft map
Source A Collection of Original Voyages..., p. 9.
Author William Ambrosia Cowley, cartographer
Herman Moll, engraver
William Hack, editor
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current11:22, 13 May 2023Thumbnail for version as of 11:22, 13 May 2023600 × 700 (51 KB)LlywelynII (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by William Ambrosia Cowley, cartographer<br>Herman Moll, engraver from will do with UploadWizard