File:A New and Accurate Map of Africa. Drawn from the best & most approved Modern Maps and Charts and regulated by Astronomical Observations by Eman Bowen CTASC.jpg

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A New and Accurate Map of Africa. Drawn from the best & most approved Modern Maps and Charts and regulated by Astronomical Observations by Eman Bowen
Description
Map of the continent of Africa from the atlas A complete system of geography, published in 1760. Countries, kingdoms, deserts, islands, and bodies of water are labelled. The Mediterranean Sea, Arabia, and some of Persia can be seen. A cartouche showing people, animals and trees can be seen in the lower left.
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Oceans Africa Algeria Mediterranean Region Mediterranean Sea Morocco Canary Islands Sahara Egypt Red Sea Nubia Benin Ethiopia Congo Hottentot Monomotapa Empire Madagascar Saudi Arabia Cyprus Tripoli (Libya)

1760
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Source York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, Historical map collection, HMC0018. http://digital.library.yorku.ca/islandora/object/yul:1153583
Creator
Emanuel Bowen  (1694–1767)  wikidata:Q330967
 
Emanuel Bowen
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Description British cartographer, printmaker and engraver
Date of birth/death 1694 Edit this at Wikidata 1767 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kingdom of England London
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creator QS:P170,Q330967
Credit line Material digitized as part of an Academic Innovation Fund (AIF), awarded in 2018. For more information see: http://avptl.info.yorku.ca/academic-innovation-fund/ .
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Date depicted
Map location Africa
Map type cartographic
Bounding box
0°37′39″S 25°44′55″E / 0.627493°S 25.748546°E / -0.627493; 25.748546
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Publisher
William Innys [et al.]
 Archival data
institution QS:P195,Q61467363
Accession number
HMC0018
Dimensions 1 map : colour ; 33 x 41 cm, on sheet 39 x 46 cm.
Notes

Includes ornamental cartouche. Prime meridian is London.

Page 45 of 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.Reflief shown pictorially.


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