Cartographer:
BOWEN, Emmanuel.
Title:
A New and Accurate Map of Northern Parts of Italy.
Stock Code:
5813
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Herman Moll
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
A Complete System of Geography
Size: (W x H):
22.5cm x 32cm
9 inches x 12½ inches
Date:
1747
Price:
£220
Attractive map of north-eastern Italy, from Tuscany to the French, Swiss and German borders. The lower third of the map is ‘A Draught of the Road of Leghorn’, with rhumb lines and soundings. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the eighteenth-century, and was cartographer to both the French and English Royal Courts.
Fine condition. Good margins.