Antique Maps by Emanuel Bowen
Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1714 - 67)
An 18th century map and print seller, who worked in London from about 1714, producing some of the best and attractive maps of the century. A recurring feature of Bowen's work, evident even on the early road maps, was his habit of filling every corner and space of the map with jottings and footnotes, both historical and topographical.
One of his earliest engraved works Britannia Depicta, published in 1720 contained over two hundred road maps together with a miniature county map of each of the counties of England and Wales. It was an unusual feature of the atlas that the maps were engraved on both sides of each page, and this resulted in a handier sized book.
He also issued with John Owen a book of road maps based, as was usual at the time, on Ogilby but again incorporating his own style of historical and heraldic detail.
Inspite of his royal appointments and apparent prosperity he died in poverty and his son, who carried on the business was no more fortunate and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.
18th century antique maps by Emanuel Bowen
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| Devonshire , Emanuel
Bowen / Thomas Bowles, Britannia
Depicta, 190
x 120, c.1720 , £45.00 |
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| Devonshire, Emanuel
Bowen, Large English Atlas, 530 x 680 , c.1767, £495.00 |
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| Ancient Egypt - and its circumstances according to this History, Emanuel Bowen c.1730, 285 x 267mm, 75.00 |
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| Europe - A New and Accurate Map Harris's Voyages, Emanuel Bowen C. 1750, 370 x 450, £110 |
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| Germany - North East, Emanuel Bowen, Mr. Tyndal's Continuation of Mr. Rapkin's History , 345 x 420 , £95.00 |
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| Greece - An Accurate Map of the Morea together with the Neighbouring Countries in Greece also the Islands in the Archipelago and Aegean Seas. Emanuel Bowen 1747, 222 x 325, £110 |
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| Hampshire , Emanuel
Bowen, English Atlas, 420
x 510, 1777, £375.00 |
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| North Pole - Correct Draught of the North Pole and of all the Countries between the Pole and the Parallel of 50 Degrees, Emanuel Bowen c.1760, 400 x 460, £120.00 |
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| Portugal - A New and Accurate Map Composed from the latest Improvements and Adjusted by the most Authentic Astronomical Observations by Emanuel Bowen - c.1760, 325 x 222, £65.00 |
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Emanuel Bowen 18th century antique maps.
