A New Map of the Southern Parts of Africa c. 1747
By Emmanuel Bowen (1694–1767)
c. 1747
Published by William Innys, London. Later version.
Copperplate engraving. See Table Mountain in the vignette. 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'.
Some wear, creasing and marginal tears.
511mm x 409mm, unframed.
R10,000