Bowen & Owen’s Berkshire Printed Area Measurement_14.5 x 20 cm

Bowen & Owen’s Berkshire Printed Area Measurement_14.5 x 20 cmThis map of Berskhire was engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owens Britannia Depicta, a pocket road book derived from Ogilbys innovative atlas of strip maps first published in 1675. Bowen & Owenss work first appeared in 1720 and proved extremely popular; there were numerous editions over the next forty years. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, recent hand colour, black and white strip maps on verso.

and can be used in conjunction with the key map and text at the foot to calculate cab fares and postage rates

presumably where the print was pasted into an album

such as the small commercial fields at Heathrow and Gatwick (and this must be one of the very first maps to show the latter) would become the huge international hubs we know today

the Parergon

Gros Britanni[en] oder Engelland Schottland und Irrland

rebacked in blue calf

[i] + finely engraved additional title within an elegant rococco border

The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas

two single page and 37 folding charts

he was not the son of

The volumes are divided thematically: Carmina de venatione

it traced the course of the ancient original built by Trajan