A New & Accurate Map of China : by "Bowen, Emmanuel": Antique Maps

A New & Accurate Map of China

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by:: "Bowen, Emmanuel"
Description:: "Uncommon thus.. Copper engraving with original outline hand colouring. Overall size: 54.1cms x 43.2cms; image size: 463mm x 346mm. Old ink number top right of sheet. Central crease as published. Highly decorative cartouch; Explanation key bottom right of various Chinese words; top left blank is an Advertisement detailing the surveys of China by various Jesuit missionairies.Highly decorative cartouche with scales of distance below. Shows the Great Wall of China. Includes Korea, Taiwan and the Isle of Hainan Very good condition apart from a few marks in the margins away from the image. Emanuel Bowen (1714-1767) was mapmaker to King George II and Louis XV (France), and his most distinguished work is the System of Geography from which this map came. "
Published Date:: 1752
MostlyMaps ID:: 45608
Price :: £440.00

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