Cartographer:
BOWEN, Emmanuel.
Title:
A New and ACCURATE MAP OF SWEDEN. Collected from the latest Improvemts. and Adjusted by the most Authentic Astronl. Observations. BY Eman: Bowen.
Stock Code:
9820
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Herman Moll
Colouring:
Hand coloured
Atlas:
A Complete System of Geography
Size: (W x H):
23cm x 32cm
9 inches x 12½ inches
Date:
1747
Price:
£250
Atractive map of Scandinavia, focusing on Sweden, but also showing Finland, parts of Norway, Denmark, Russia, Baltic states, Poland and Germany. Shows forested areas. Relief shown pictorially. Includes geographic notes and ornamental title cartouche 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; wide margins.