A new & accurate map of China / drawn from surveys made by the Jesuit missionaries by order of the emperor, the whole being regulated by numerous astronomical observations by Eman. Bowen.

Author/creator Bowen, Emanuel cartographer.
Format Map
Publication Info[London] : [W. Innys et al.], [1747]
Description1 map ; 33 x 41 cm on sheet 39 x 47 cm
Subjects

Variant title New and accurate map of China
Cartographic dataScale [ca. 1:10,000,000] (E 92°--E 130°/N 44°--N 16°).
Local noteJoyner Rare vault copy is hand colored.
General noteRelief shown pictorially.
General notePrime meridians: London and Peking.
General noteEither from Bowen's Complete system of geography ... London : W. Innys et al., 1747, or from Bowen's The maps and charts to the modern part of the universal history, London : T. Osborne et al., 1766.
General noteLacking page number.
General noteIncludes illustration depicting figures in regional dress at bottom left.
General noteScale given in "Li or Chinese furlongs 250 to a degree" and "English and French leagues 20 to a degree."
General noteShows China and Korea, with detail primarily focused in China.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Jack and Mary Spain
References McCorkle, B.B. Carto-bibliography of the maps in eighteenth-century British and American geography books, #17 v. 2, map 11.
References Maps in the atlases of the British Library, T.BOW-2d #28
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare vault copy gift of Jack and Mary Spain, 6/19/2024
Genre/formEarly works.
Genre/formMaps.
Genre/formMaps.
LCCN 2006629394

Availability

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Joyner Rare Vault G7820 1747 .B69 ✔ Available Request Material