£50 Emanuel Bowen
c.1720
Ref: 9011
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12x18 cm
FROM "OWEN & BOWEN'S' ROAD BOOK BRITANNIA DEPICTA
NOTTINGHAM SHIRE
Map set below a decorative cartouche containing the title and details of the road from London to Berwick.
Road map of the commencement of the route from London to Berwick verso.
Engraved text descriptions alongside the county map and alongside and below the road map verso.
Engraved by Emanuel Bowen (1693?-1767) and published in the pocket road book Britannia Depicta by Thomas Bowles from 1720 to 1764. The county maps were based on Robert Morden's small series published in The New Description and State of England... from 1701.
Good example in fine hand colour both sides.
(For full description of the road, go to category: Maps > British Isles > RoadMaps > Owen & Bowen.)
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