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Bowen, Emanuel

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

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Art : Graphic Arts / Geography and Geology / Index of Names : Occident

Chronology Entries (1)

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1 1883-1887 George Ferguson Bowen ist Gouverneur von Hong Kong. Er gründet das Royal Observatory, das spätere Meteorlologcial Institute.

Bibliography (2)

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1 1738-1741 Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste. A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary : together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet : containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries. From the French ; with notes geographical, historical, and critical ; and other improvements, particularly in the maps, by the translator [Edward Cave]. Vol. 1-2. (London : Printed by T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738-1741). [Maps signed by Emanuel Bowen]. Übersetzung von Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste. Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'empire de Chine et de la Tartarie chinois enrichie de cartes générales et particulières et ornée d'un grand nombre de figures et de vignettes gravées en taille douce. T. 1-4. (Paris : G. Le Mercier, 1735 ; La Haye : H. Scheurleer, 1736).
https://archive.org/details/descriptionofemp00duha.
Publication / DuH12
2 1747 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.
Publication / BowE2