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Huntingdon Shire

£60.00 Approx $75.66, €70.01

Code: 52918



Author: Bowen, Emanuel (late) & Bowen, Thomas

Publisher: Atlas Anglicanus, Or a Complete Sett of Maps of the Counties of South Britain.

Date published: 1767

Long title: Huntingdon Shire divided into the Hundreds, describing the Borough Market Towns Church Living setc. Copper engraving with original outline hand colouring. Overall size in hinged, off white fully conservation grade mount and back with decorative v groove : 39cms.x 50.4cms. Image size : 228mm.x 333mm. Very good condition. Rare. Like Bowen (and Kitchin's) Large English Atlas these smaller maps are 'characterized by detailed texts in the spaces surrounding the map and by elegant rococo decoration, which became the hallmark of his engraving' (Iolo Roberts and Menai Roberts for DNB). Hodsen p 125. Chubb, Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain CCXXXI