Map Collection

Bowles 1773
private collection:- 
Map, partly coloured engraving, New Travelling Map of England and Wales, scale about 25 miles to 1 inch, by Carington Bowles, 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London, 1773.
Inset is A Map of the Navigable Canals now making in England.
map feature:-  sectioned for folding & mounted & lat and long scales & up is N & sea plain & coast form lines & county & settlements & roads & road distances & canals
inscription:-  printed -on- title, upper left BOWLES'S / NEW TRAVELLING MAP / OF / ENGLAND AND WALES; Exhibiting all the / DIRECT, AND PRINCIPAL CROSS / ROADS; with the Distances from Town to Town / according to the Mile stones, and other / exact Admensurations. / Printed for CARINGTON BOWLES, / No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, LONDON.
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom Published as the Act directs, 2 Jany. 1773.
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 53.5x61cm
wxh, map = 519x595mm

  Map Group -- Bowles 1773 -- with Research Notes

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MN: 16.12.2002