emanuel-bowen-map-of-the-chesapeake-bay-region
Lot 351
Emanuel Bowen Map of the Chesapeake Bay Region
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
A New and Accurate Map of Virginia & Maryland, copperplate engraving with outline color (London, 1747). Mid-18th century settlement patterns are readily discernible in this popular map which, surprisingly, still notes Indian lands and houses existing in the Chesapeake Bay watershed at a fairly late date. Presented in gilt wooden frame.

Sheet 16.5 x 9.75 in.; Plate 12 7/8 a 9 in.; DOA in frame 19 x 15.25 in.

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

Light browning to sheet's upper and lower margins, else clean. Losses to frame's gilt.

$300 - 600