By Emmanuel Bowen (1694-1767)
Published by William Innys, London. Later version.
Hand coloured copperplate engraving (later colouring).
Bowen was a leading 18th century English cartographer who could engrave; he also sold maps & prints from his shop in London. This map came from Bowen’s massive Complete Geography with seventy maps, ‘being all new-drawn and engraved according to the latest discoveries and surveys… for the use of gentlemen, merchants, mariners and others, who delight in history and geography.’

Bowen used the London prime meridian on this map (see bottom right of the Longitude scale), the Greenwich Royal Observatory having been established in 1721.

44cm x 35cm excluding mount board (unframed).

R10,000.