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Lot 73

MAPS AND ATLASES
BOWEN (EMANUEL) and THOMAS KITCHIN. [The Large English Atlas]

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MAPS AND ATLASES

BOWEN (EMANUEL) and THOMAS KITCHIN. [The Large English Atlas], 45 hand-coloured double-page maps (Middlesex torn at fold, the last map creased), contemporary marbled board, folio, [c.1760]

Footnotes

This untitled atlas equates to that issued over a number of years under the title of The Large English Atlas. It comprises a general map of England and Wales (Kitchin), a map of North Wales (printed for Bowles, Tinney and Sayer) and 43 county maps by Bowen and Kitchin (the majority by Bowen), printed by or for various publishers between 1749 and 1760 and including: Cornwall with inset map of the Isles of Scilly (J. Hinton, 1750); Cambridgeshire with inset view 'Prospect of Ely' (J. Tinney, 1753); Devon with inset plan of Plymouth (Bowles and Sayer, n.d.); Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire (T. and J. Bowles, Tinney and Sayer, 1760); Middlesex flanked by coats of arms (n.d.); Sussex with inset views and plans of Chichester and Lewes (J. Hinton 1749); Somerset with inset plan of Bath (J. Hinton, 1750); Warwickshire with inset views of Tamworth, Warwick and Kenilworth castles and Guy's Cliff (J. Tinney, 1753); Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire with inset view of Haverfordwest (J. Tinney, 1754); Carmarthanshire and Glamorgan with inset views of Carmarthan and Cardiff (J. Tinney, 1754); North Riding with inset view of York (J. Hinton, 1750); East Riding with inset view of Hull (J. Hinton, 1750); West Riding with inset view of Leeds (J. Hinton, 1750).

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