Cartographer:
BOWEN, Emmanuel.
Title:
A New and Accurate Map of ANATOLIA or ASIA MINOR with SYRIA and such other Provinces of the Turkish Empire.
Stock Code:
5229
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Herman Moll
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
A Complete System of Geography
Size: (W x H):
42cm x 35cm
16½ inches x 14 inches
Date:
1747
Price:
£345
Handsome map of Turkey, extending eastwards as far as Armenia and south as far Damascus. Decorative cartouche at lower left. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the eighteenth-century, and was unusual in that he was cartographer to both the French and English Royal Courts.
Fine condition. Good margins.