Art

Handsome map of the lands surrounding Caspian Sea - Astrakhan,Independent Tartary, Persia, Shirwan and others, title cartouche at upper right. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the eighteenth-century, and was unusual in that he was cartographer to both the French and English Royal Courts. Copper engraving. Later colour. Size: 22.5 x 31 cm. (9 x 12 inches).