Cartographer:
BOWEN, Emmanuel.
Title:
A New and Accurate Map of SWEDEN.
Stock Code:
5255
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Herman Moll
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
A Complete System of Geography
Size: (W x H):
22cm x 31.5cm
8½ inches x 12½ inches
Date:
1747
Price:
£295
An attractive map of Sweden, text at top left, pictorial cartouche with a fur trader at lower right. 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.