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Author: Bowen, Emanuel

Date: 1747

Short Title: Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico.

Publisher: London: William Innys [et al.]

Type: Atlas Map

Obj Height cm: 35

Obj Width cm: 43

Scale 1: 3,100,000

Note: 2 maps on 1 sheet. Engraved. Show rocks, banks, etc. Include geographical note. Has 2 ornamental cartouches. Relief shown pictorially.

Reference: cf. P-Maps, p. 253 (1752 ed.); NMM p.356; M&B p 166; LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, 1778 (1752 ed.)

Country: Cuba ; Dominican Republic ; Haiti

Region: Hispaniola

Full Title: A new & accurate map of the island of Cuba. Drawn from the most approved maps & charts ... ; A new & accurate map of the islands of Hispaniola or St. Domingo, and Porto Rico. Drawn from the most approved maps & charts ... By Eman. Bowen. (London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, J. and P. Knapton, John Clarke, T. Longman and T. Shewell, Thomas Osborne, Henry Whitridge ... M.DCC.XLVII)

List No: 3733.064

Page No: No. 65

Series No: 67

Publication Author: Bowen, Emanuel

Pub Date: 1747

Pub Title: A complete system of geography. Being a description of all the countries, islands, cities, chief towns, harbours, lakes, and rivers, mountains, mines, &c. of the known world ... In two volumes. The whole illustrated with seventy maps, by Emanuel Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty, being all new-drawn and ingraved according to the latest discoveries and surveys; making, of themselves, a complete atlas, for the sse of gentlemen, merchants, mariners, and others, who delight in history and geography ... Vol. 1. London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, J. and P. Knapton, John Clarke, T. Longman and T. Shewell, Thomas Osborne, Henry Whitridge ... M.DCC.XLVII.

Pub Reference: cf P614 (1752 edition of A Complete Atlas...); NMM p.356; M&B p 166.

Pub Note: "In the title Bowen states that he is ""Preserving all that is useful in the Fourth and Last edition of the Complete Geographer, publish'd under the name of Herman Moll, &c."" The 70 maps were also published in two other forms: in ""A Complete Atlas"" of 1752, and as the Maps for the ""Complete Collection of Voyages"" by John Harris, in 1744-48 (M&B). The text is massive and interesting, and there are several important maps of America: America, West Indies, Mexico, Louisiana, Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania et al, and Newfoundland et al. The map of the World in Hemispheres is lacking in this copy. Both volumes are newly bound in full brown leather covered boards with ""Geography. Vol. 1"" and -Geography. Vol. 2"" embossed on the spine in gilt."

Pub List No: 3733.000

Pub Type: Geography Book

Pub Maps: 70

Pub Height cm: 43

Pub Width cm: 28

Image No: 3733064

Institution: Rumsey Collection

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