COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-6717
File Name:
C-6717
Call number:
Cabinet Ja762 BoC79
Map title:
Bowles's New One-Sheet Chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean, Laid down from the Latest Discoveries, and Regulated by Numerous Astronomical Observations.
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Publication date:
[ca. 1794]
Map size height:
44.4 cm.
Map size width:
54.9 cm.
Item description:
engraving, hand coloring
Geographical description:
Map of the Western or Atlantic Ocean, showing the western coast of Europe and Africa, the eastern coast of North America, and the Caribbean basin. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude and longitude, compass rose, rhumb lines, sea banks or shoals, soundings, transatlantic routes of ships, and scale. Areas are colored to indicate political alliances.
Cartobibliographic notes:
The name of the engraver, Thomas Bowen, has been deleted in this state.
References:
Bowles and Carver, Catalogue... (1795), p. 11 (no. 16); Stevens and Tree (MCC 39) 5(d)
Geographic Area:
Western hemisphere
Historical notes:
Transatlantic tracks marked show "Course of the [Spanish] Galleons and Flota," "Usual Course to the West Indies Carolina & Virginia...," "Upper Course to Carolina & Virginia," "Course to New York etc.," "Course to Boston in New England," "Return of the Galleons and Flota to Cadiz."
Normalized date:
1794
Creator:
Carrington Bowles
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