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This map is of the islands of Timor, New Britain and New Guinea. It appeared in the first volume of John Harris’ ‘Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels’. The works was a collection of such travels as was popular at the time, this being one of the finest. It was first published in 1705 and then greatly expanded for this edition published in two volumes 1744-48 with many maps and plates by Emanuel Bowen. Nordenskiold 487; Shirley Atlases in the BL G.Harr 1a no. 4.
BOWEN, Emanuel
A Map of the Discoveries made by Captain William Dampier in the Roebuck in 1699
London, 1744
205 x 320 mm., with even toning across the map otherwise in fine condition.
Stock number: 7773
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