Engravers: Emanuel Bowen, C. Moore, and G. Child., From Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine (English edition, 1738)., From maps originally drawn in 1709-1710 by Jean Baptiste, Pierre Jartoux, Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli, and Guillaume Bonjour., Prime meridians: Paris and Peking [Beijing]., Relief shown pictorially., and Watermarks.
Publisher:
[T. Gardner for Edward Cave],
Subject (Geographic):
Asia, Central--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Bonjour, Guillaume, 1670-1714, cartographer., Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767, engraver., Child, G., engraver., and Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743. Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique,
"Arabia the happie, the north part" at lower edge., From Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world (1614)., In upper left corner: 64; in upper right corner: 65., Relief shown pictorially., Shows a portion of the Mediterranean Sea with Cyprus and Cappadocia to the northwest, the Red Sea and the Persian Sea to the south. Arabia desert and Mesopotamia near center., The map identifies the Home of Abraham at Vrocha (Chaldea), the first plantation of Chus, Babylon, Jerusalem the Garden of Eden, the City of Petra (then known to European only in legend), and the route taken by Abraham into Egypt., and Watermark.
Publisher:
[Printed by William Stansby for Walter Burre],
Subject (Geographic):
Iraq--Historical geography--Maps. and Middle East--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. History of the world
Cross Collection no. 307., From Herman Moll's Atlas minor. ... London : Thomas Bowles and John Bowles, [1736]., Includes table of are, Relief shown pictorially., and Shows churches, forts, plantations, windmills, submerged rocks, etc.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Tho. Bowles, next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church yard & I. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill,
Subject (Geographic):
Barbados--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bowles, John, 1701-1779, printer, Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printer, and Moll, Herman, -1732. Atlas minor