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| Cartograph: |
Emanuel Bowen (*1693 - †1767) |
| Title: |
A New & Accurate Map of Switzerland with its Allies and Subjects, Composed from ye Most Approv'd Maps &c. and Regulated by Astronoml. Observatns. |
| Publisher/ Year: |
London, E. Bowen, 1747 |
| Sheet Size: |
42.5 x 26.4 cm (16.7 x 10.4 inches) |
| Plate Size: |
32.0 x 22.7 cm (12.6 x 8.9 inches) |
| Decorative engraved map of Switzerland by Bowen from 'A Complete System of Geography'. With a large inset plan of Geneva at bottom, with keys at sides to 67 locations. Decorated with one cartouche, a compass rose and a mileage scale. |
| Excellent condition. |
| 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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