Author: Emanuel Bowen
Publisher: published in London.
Year: 1752 [1747]
Size: 34.5 x 42.4 cm
Reference: not in Quirino; Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Islands, p.213
A New and Accurate Map of the East India Islands
₱56,100.00
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Description
hand-coloured copper engraving map from Emanuel Bowen’s “A Complete Atlas, or Distinct View of the Known World”; with plate number 44 (one of 3 variants).
Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, J. And P. Knapton, John Clarke, T. Longman and T. Shewell, Thomas Osborne, Henry Whitridge… A strikingly beautiful map of the Philippines, Indonesia and Indochina, showing shoals, text inscriptions on various ocean areas, a sea rose and and elaborate cartouche.
Emanuel Bowen (1693[4]-1767) a British engraver and print seller, famous for his atlases and county maps, served as a mapmaker for King George II of England and King Louis XV of France. Both, Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys were trained by Bowen.
Condition
with centerfold as issued, with some light toning.
