Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bowen, Emanuel, -1767
Title:
The County of Cambridge [cartographic material] : containing the city & county town, with the market towns, rivers, roads, & distances / by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.
Published / Created:
[London] : Engrav'd for the General Magazine, of Arts and Sciences ; 1759.

For W. Owen, at Temple Bar, 1759.
Physical Description:
1 map ; 17.8 x 16 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2015 3g
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale [1:447,000].
Notes:
From: The Natural History of England / Benjamin Martin. London, 1759-1763.

"The Natural History of England" was published as part of Martin's "The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences ..."

Lists hundreds.

Shows boundaries, roads with distances, drains and fens, and settlements.

Issued in November 1759.

London meridian.

Relief shown pictorially.

Hodson, 230

County of Cambridge.

BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. On sheet 22.7 x 20.9 cm.
Subject Terms:
Cambridgeshire (England) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Maps -- England -- Cambridgeshire. | Maps. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1759.
Contributors:
Owen, W. (William), -1793, publisher. | Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782. Natural History of England.