The General Magazine of Arts & Sciences

Emanuel Bowen’s compact county maps appeared between 1757 and 1761 in The General Magazine of Arts & Sciences, where geo...

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Emanuel Bowen’s compact county maps appeared between 1757 and 1761 in The General Magazine of Arts & Sciences, where geography took its place among the useful knowledge offered to mid-eighteenth-century readers. Published in London by W. Owen, they cover Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire, with a chart of the Strait of Gibraltar taking the reader to southern Europe. The Middlesex sheet includes London, Westminster and Southwark.

Emanuel Bowen’s compact county maps appeared between 1757 and 1761 in The General Magazine of Arts & Sciences, where geography took its place among the useful knowledge offered to mid-eighteenth-century readers. Published in London by W. Owen, they cover Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire, with a chart of the Strait of Gibraltar taking the reader to southern Europe. The Middlesex sheet includes London, Westminster and Southwark.