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     Meyer Kestnbaum
     Dept of Sociology
     University of Maryland
 
     Perhaps the most accessible (for you) biographical information on
     Emanuel (and his son Thomas) Bowen can be found on pp.423-424 of the
     'Biographical notes' section in:-
 
     The printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland: a
     bibliography, 1579-1870 / Thomas Chubb. - London; Edinburgh: The
     Homeland Association, 1927 (reprinted Folkestone: Dawson, 1977)
 
     It must never be assumed that maps were only ever compiled and
     engraved for inclusion in atlases (or, as James Akerman of The
     Newberry Library and Peter van der Krogt of Utrecht University would
     put, 'atlases'): your map of Europe, for example, appears between
     pp.456 & [457] in:-
 
     Navigantium atque Itinerantium Biblioteca.  Or, a complete collection
     of voyages and travels [...] Originally published [...] By John Harris
     [...] now carefully revised [...], vol.II, Book II (London: various
     publishers, 1748)
 
     A personal guess at the symbolism of the cartouche would be that the
     reclining beared male figure represents the commercial importance of
     inland waterways and the ship represents overseas trade: contemporary
     context will often help in unravelling such things.
 
     Barbara McCorkle (whose in-depth study of 18th-century geographies and
     their cartographic constituents) is eagerly awaited by many of us
     cartobibliographic cranks, may well supply you with details on
     possible further use of the same copper-plate map.
 
     Yours sincerely
     Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS, London)
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