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Requested on: 6 and 7 July 1866.

The London-based geographer and cartographer Herman Moll (1654?-1732) produced an epic five-volume geography of the world between 1711 and 1717. Atlas Geographus contained a map of each country, but the main focus of the five volumes was on a very detailed description of the physical geography, peoples, customs, and history of each territory.

Stoker called up only the second of the five volumes, which contains the entries on France, Iberia, Italy, Hungary and Turkey. In the light of Stoker’s most famous novel, Dracula, it is intriguing that this volume has an entry (with accompanying map) on Transylvania as a contested frontier area between Hungarian and Turkish power in south-central Europe.

Citation:
6. Atlas Geographus: Or, a Compleat System of Geography, Ancient and Modern, 5 vols, (London, 1711-17).,
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