Antique Maps by Emanuel Bowen
Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1714 - 67)
An 18th century map and print seller and engraver to King George II and Louis XV of France, 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.
He had plans for completing a major county atlas but, finding the task beyond his means, joined with Thomas Kitchin to publish The Large English County Atlas. Many of the maps were individually issued from 1749 and the whole atlas was finally completed in 1760.
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.
Thomas Bowen was his son, Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys were his apprentices.
In spite 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.
c.1714 Maps of the Continents 1720 (with John Owen) Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improved.
1744-47 A Complete System of Geography.
1744-48 maps for Complete Collection of Voyages (Harris).
1752 Complete Atlas Distinct View of the Known World.
1755-60 (with Thomas Kitchin) The Large English Atlas (1763/67/77/85/87 further editions and enlargements).
1758 (with John Gibson) Atlas Minimus (re-issued 1744).
1762 (with Thomas Kitchin) The Royal English Atlas 1778/80 re-issued (1794-1828 re-issued as the English Atlas).
c.1763 (with Benjamin Martin) The Natural History of England.
1766 Universal History of the World. 1767 (with Thomas Bowen) Atlas Anglicanus (re-issued 1777).
c.1777 (Thomas Bowen) The World showing the Discoveries of Captain Cook and other Circumnavigators.
c.1784 (Thomas Bowen) Maps in Rapins's History of England.
Cheshire
Emanuel Bowen
1767
£165.00
Hampshire
Thomas Kitchin
c.1764
£395.00
Yorkshire West Riding
Emanuel Bowen
c.1779
£225.00 scarce
Cornwall
Emanuel Bowen
1763 scarce
SOLD
Basingstoke to East Dean road map
Owen and Bowen
c.1720-1764
£40.00
Cornwall - Devon Road Map Hatherly to Camelford
Emanuel Bowen and John Owen, Britannia Depicta
c.1720
£40.00
Dunkerton to Weymouth road map
Owen and Bowen
c.1720-1764
£40.00
Barnstaple to Bideford road map
Owen and Bowles
c. 1720
40.00
Exeter to Dartmouth road map
Owen and Bowles
c. 1720
40.00
Dorsetshire
Emanuel Bowen and John Owen
c.1720-64
£50.00
Ancient Egypt - and its circumstances according to this History
Emanuel Bowen
c.1730
75.00
Somerset
Emanuel Bowen
c.1759
£80.00
Devonshire
Emanuel Bowen
c.1760
£395.00
Portugal
Emanuel Bowen
c.1747
£65.00
Jerusalem
Emanuel Bowen
c. 1766
£95.00
Buckinghamshire
Emanuel Bowen
C.1787
SOLD
Devonshire
Owen and Bowen
1720
£60.00
Surrey
Emanuel Bowen
1777
£350.00
Bedfordshire
Emanuel Bowen and John Owen
c. 1720
£45.00
Middlesex
Emanuel Bowen
1757
£70.00
Wiltshire
Emanuel Bowen
C.1760
SOLD
Hampshire
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£60.00
Oxfordshire
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£60.00
Kent
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£60.00
Cornwall
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
SOLD
Smaller Islands of the British Ocean
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£55.00
Wiltshire
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£55.00
Sussex
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£55.00
Suffolk
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£50.00
Hertfordshire
Owen and Bowen
c.1720
£60.00