Cartographer:
BOWEN, Emmanuel.
Title:
A New and Accurate Map of the Island of JAMAICA Divided into its principal Parishes.
Stock Code:
5831
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Herman Moll
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
A Complete System of Geography
Date:
1747
Price:
£500
An attractive map of Jamaica with two insets; at lower left, ‘A Draught of the Harbour of Port Antonio and St. Francis on the North East coats of Jamaica’, and at lower right, ‘A Draught of Port Royal or Kingston Harbour in Jamaica’. 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.