Very Rare 1747 E BOWEN'S MAP OF WEST AFRICA SLAVERY HAND COLOURED

1747 E BOWEN'S MAP OF WEST AFRICA SLAVERY HAND COLOURED GOOD SIZE

Bowen's map of West Africa from the Canary Islands to Congo. From 'A Complete System of Geography'. Decorated with a compass rose and a nice figural title cartouche. This is a quite scarce, hand coloured, mid 18th century map of West Africa by Emanuel Bowen who was a printer, publisher and map engraver in London during the mid-eighteenth century. From 1714 onwards he worked in London and began to produce some of the finest and most attractive maps of the century.