emanuel-bowen-map-of-mexico-and-central-america
Lot 349
Emanuel Bowen Map of Mexico and Central America
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Copperplate engraving with outline color, A New & Accurate Map of Mexico or New Spain together with California New Mexico &c., from A Complete System of Geography (London, 1747), with inset map of the Galapagos Islands, a thematic cartouche for the main work illustrates a Spanish slave trader with two bound captives. Presented in a gilt wooden frame.

SS 14.5 x 17 in.; DOA 19.75 x 22 in.

From the collection of the late Brien E. Kehoe, Washington, D.C.

Clean paper with light age toning; frame lacks glass and has much loss to gilt.

$300 - 600