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| Cartograph: |
Emanuel Bowen (*1693 - †1767) |
| Title: |
A New and Accurate Map of Chili, Terra Magellanica, Terra del Fuego &c. |
| Publisher/ Year: |
London, E. Bowen, 1747 |
| Sheet Size: |
42.5 x 48.5 cm (16.7 x 19.1 inches) |
| Plate Size: |
35.7 x 42.9 cm (14.1 x 16.9 inches) |
| Bowen's map of the southern part of South America from 'A Complete System of Geography'. With one title cartouche and a compass rose. With two inset maps, one of Santiago, the other of Terra del Fuego. |
| Evidence of two old vertical folds, some creases in upper left margin. |
| About the Cartograph/ Printer: Emanuel Bowen was a printer, publisher and map engraver in London during the mid-eighteenth century. From 1714 onwards he worked in London and began to produce some of the finest and most attractive maps of the century. |
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