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EMANUEL BOWEN (c.1693-1767)
A Complete System of Geography, being a Description of All the Countries, Islands, Cities, Chief Towns, Harbours... of the Known World. London: for William Innys, Richard Ware and others, 1747. 2 volumes, 2° (410 x 260mm). Titles printed in red and black, privilege leaf opposite title to vol. I, 71 engraved maps by Bowen, 2 folding, 56 double-page, mounted on guards. (Occasional marginal suface soiling, title and index to vol. II lightly browned, minor offsetting to a few plates.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine in compartments with tooled lettering pieces (light wear, with some tears to covers). Provenance: John Clevland (c.1707-1763), (book label pasted inside upper cover) -- by descent to the present owners.
FIRST EDITION, of the System of Geography, by 'one of the leading 18th-century map and printsellers and engravers in London' (Tooley), based on the fourth and final edition of the Compleat Geographer published by Herman Moll. The maps, which were intended as a complete atlas in themselves, include two world maps and 21 maps relating to the Americas. This copy was owned by John Clevland, Secretary to the Admiralty (see lot 2). Phillips, Atlases 603; NMM, p.356. (2)
A Complete System of Geography, being a Description of All the Countries, Islands, Cities, Chief Towns, Harbours... of the Known World. London: for William Innys, Richard Ware and others, 1747. 2 volumes, 2° (410 x 260mm). Titles printed in red and black, privilege leaf opposite title to vol. I, 71 engraved maps by Bowen, 2 folding, 56 double-page, mounted on guards. (Occasional marginal suface soiling, title and index to vol. II lightly browned, minor offsetting to a few plates.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine in compartments with tooled lettering pieces (light wear, with some tears to covers). Provenance: John Clevland (c.1707-1763), (book label pasted inside upper cover) -- by descent to the present owners.
FIRST EDITION, of the System of Geography, by 'one of the leading 18th-century map and printsellers and engravers in London' (Tooley), based on the fourth and final edition of the Compleat Geographer published by Herman Moll. The maps, which were intended as a complete atlas in themselves, include two world maps and 21 maps relating to the Americas. This copy was owned by John Clevland, Secretary to the Admiralty (see lot 2). Phillips, Atlases 603; NMM, p.356. (2)
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