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C1744
An Exact Chart of all the Countries through which …
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The first English map to record Bering’s explorations. Bering was selected by the Tsar to captain the First Kamchatka Expedition, an expedition set to sail north from Russian outposts on the Kamchatka peninsula, with the charge to map the new … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
An Exact Chart of all the Countries through which Capt. Behring Travelled from Tobolski Capital of Siberia to the Country of Kamtschatka
Date:
C1744
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
325mm
x 180mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1744
Description:
The first English map to record Bering’s explorations.
Bering was selected by the Tsar to captain the First Kamchatka Expedition, an expedition set to sail north from Russian outposts on the Kamchatka peninsula, with the charge to map the new areas visited and to establish whether Asia and America shared a land border. Bering departed from St. Petersburg in February 1725 as the head of a 34-man expedition, aided by the expertise of Lieutenants Martin Spangberg and Aleksei Chirikov. The party took on men as it headed towards Okhotsk, encountering many difficulties (most notably a lack of food) before arriving at the settlement.
From Harris’s, Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travel.
Emanuel Bowen (1693 - 1767)
English engraver, mapmaker and publisher active in London during the first half of the c.18th.
He trained under the engraver Charles Price and established himself in the competitive London print trade at a time when demand for maps and geographical works was expanding rapidly. Bowen was the “Geographer to His Majesty” (George II) and later “Geographer to the Prince of Wales,” appointments that he prominently advertised on his maps. He produced a wide range of cartographic works, including separately issued maps, road maps, county surveys and atlas sheets. Among his best-known publications is Britannia Depicta (first issued in the 1720s), a series of county maps often accompanied by descriptive text and lists of towns, seats and antiquities. He also contributed maps to multi-volume works such as John Owen’s Britannia Depicta editions and other collaborative publications.
Bowen’s cartographic style is characterised by clear engraving, decorative cartouches and detailed textual annotations. Many of his maps include historical notes, population figures, trade information and references to classical or biblical geography, reflecting the eighteenth-century appetite for both practical and learned geographic knowledge. He issued maps of the British Isles, Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, responding to growing public interest in overseas exploration and imperial expansion.
He frequently collaborated with other publishers and engravers, including Thomas Kitchin.
Despite professional activity and royal appointments, Bowen experienced financial difficulties in his later years and is recorded as having died in relative poverty in 1767.
