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| Cartograph: |
Emanuel Bowen (*1693 - †1767) |
| Title: |
A New & Accurate Map of the North Pole, with All the Countries Hitherto Discovered Situated Near or Adjacent to it as Well as some others More Remote. |
| Publisher/ Year: |
London, E. Bowen, 1747 |
| Sheet Size: |
42.7 x 48.3 cm (16.8 x 19.0 inches) |
| Plate Size: |
38.0 x 43.0 cm (15.0 x 16.9 inches) |
| Reference: |
Kershaw #420 |
| Attractive Arctic and sub-Arctic map of Emanuel Bowen from 'A Complete System of Geography'. Excellent detailed around Hudson Bay, Greenland, Spitzbergen, north-east coast of Europe & Asia and the North-East passage. With a decorative cartouche and explanation text. |
| Evidence of two old vertical folds, two tears just into the image at lower centrefold backed. |
| 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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