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“A complete system of geography : being a description of all the countries, islands, cities... &c. of the known world : shewing the situation, extent, and boundaries, of the several empires, kingdoms, republics, principalities, provinces &c.” (Publication, 1747)

Year

1747

Text

Bowen, Emanuel. A complete system of geography : being a description of all the countries, islands, cities... &c. of the known world : shewing the situation, extent, and boundaries, of the several empires, kingdoms, republics, principalities, provinces &c. The whole illustrated with seventy maps by Emanuel Bowen ; being all new-drawn and ingraved according to the latest discoveries and surveys ; making of themselves, a complete atlas ; this work, extracted from several hundred books of travels and history, is brought down to the present time ; preserving all that is useful in the fourth and last edition of the Complete geographer, publish'd under the name of Herman Moll. (London : Printed for W. Innys, R. Ware, 1747).
[Enthält] : 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. (BowE2)

Type

Publication

Contributors (1)

Bowen, Emanuel  (1593 od. 1694-1767 London) : Kartograph, Graveur

Mentioned People (1)

Moll, Herman  (Bremen 1654 ca.-1732 London) : Kartograph, Geograph, Verleger

Subjects

Geography and Geology